Dissertation Topic: An investigation into the experience of writing academic essays in English of postgraduate Chinese overseas students
Abstract
This study on Nature of Academic Writing investigated how the two established models of English writing – the product approach and the process approach – affected Chinese MA TESOL postgraduate students’ essay writing, data resources including questionnaires and self-report with stimulated recall protocols in the interviews. The types of writing activities that students went through in the journey of writing an academic essay were taken into account when exploring features of writing processes in the reader-focused approach.
This research used a questionnaire and interviews. 60 Chinese postgraduate students for MA TESOL in a university in UK took part in the …