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<creator>
<creatorName>Condrat, V.</creatorName>
<affiliation>Universitatea de Stat „Alecu Russo” din Bălţi, Moldova, Republica</affiliation>
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<titles>
<title xml:lang='en'>Acquiring writing skills in academic contexts</title>
</titles>
<publisher>Instrumentul Bibliometric National</publisher>
<publicationYear>2017</publicationYear>
<relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType='ISBN' relationType='IsPartOf'>978-9975-9904-8-6</relatedIdentifier>
<subjects>
<subject>academic writing</subject>
<subject>writing skills</subject>
<subject>students’ challenges</subject>
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<dates>
<date dateType='Issued'>2017</date>
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<description xml:lang='en' descriptionType='Abstract'><p>Academic writing poses certain problems for students who need to produce quite a number of written works during their course of study. This article examines the challenges students face while writing for academic purposes. The study is based on the analysis of the questionnaires taken from undergraduates at Alecu Russo Balti State University, which aimed to elicit the students&rsquo; understanding of academic writing. The findings suggest that students do not seem to have developed the necessary academic writing skills, which leads to their writing apprehension and lack of motivation. Hence teachers need to think of viable solutions to scaffold the students&rsquo; academic writing process that would help the students to develop into mature academic writers.</p></description>
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