A Guide To Supervising Non-Native English Writers Of Theses And Dissertations: Focusing On The Writing Process - 9780415631815

A growing number of students who are non-native speakers of English are enrolled in Masters and Ph.D. programs at universities across the world where English is the language of communication. These students often encounter difficulties when writing a thesis or dissertation in Englishù primarily understanding the requirements and expectations of the new academic context and the conventions of academic writing. Focused on the writing process, A Guide to Supervising Non-native English Writers of Theses and Dissertationspresents accounts of writing difficulties and issues from both supervisorsÆ and studentsÆ perspectives, identifies key issues, offers a synthesis and critical appraisal of a range of published approaches to addressing them, and provides hands-on, tested, practical solutions. Designed for easy use by writing supervisors, this concise guide relates practical approaches to specific writing issues (relationship between reading for and preparing to write up part-genres; creating arguments; making and evaluating claims, judgements and conclusions; coherence and cohesion; generic and discipline-specific writing conventions). Numerous textual samples from students illustrate actual writing difficulties and how supervisors worked towards solutions

• | Author: John Bitchener
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 166 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0415631815
• | ISBN-13: 9780415631815