Helping postgraduate students to learn "The rules of the game" in and through the thesis writing process in English

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Ekstam, Jane Mattisson
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This article discusses the importance of regarding academic writing for English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) users as a process and not just, as is often the case, a product, because it is through writing that students are enabled to acquire a distinct scholarly identity that will serve them well both at university and after. The writing process is governed by so-called «rules of the game», i. e. implicit rules, developed over time, that determine how a text will be read, understood and evaluated by the members of a particular academic community. A text is thus a piece of social practice through which, and by which, we demonstrate our learning. Our goal as teachers must be to promote life-long learning. Nowhere is this more important than in the Master’s or doctoral thesis – the culmination of a university career that will hopefully initiate the student into his/her chosen community and profession.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article