Cohesion and Coherence in Academic Writing Skill
Academic writing is a fundamental skill to develop in students since it can make them successful in their studies and as a future professionals. It is a skill that requires a wide knowledge of concepts and practice about coherence and cohesion strategies. However, writing has been neglected since ba...
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| Format: | masterThesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2021
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| Online Access: | http://repositorio.utc.edu.ec/handle/27000/8189 |
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Add Tag | Summary: | Academic writing is a fundamental skill to develop in students since it can make them successful in their studies and as a future professionals. It is a skill that requires a wide knowledge of concepts and practice about coherence and cohesion strategies. However, writing has been neglected since basic levels to superior levels of education and it has made that students have problems when writing, especially in undergraduate students of seventh level in the English Major at Technical University of Cotopaxi. The students cannot organize ideas, use transitional signals, write an appropriate outlining, use synonymy and antonymy, collocations, reference and conjuctions. All of these lack of knowledge and practice have affected their level of writing to present their essays. That is why the objective of this research is to determine the main strategies of cohesion and coherence to promote academic writing essays in B1 pre service teachers at Technical University of Cotopaxi. The methodology is qualitative and descriptive since they contribute to describe and explain student’s main problems of cohesion and coherence in academic writing texts. It also uses explanatory and bibliography method to go deeply in the concepts using articles to get relevant information about the topic to design a module. The researcher uses a rubric to analyze students’ essay and a survey to get student`s improvements after the pedagogical implementation. The results show that the module implemented guide students to improve coherence and cohesion strategies to make them write better academic essays. As conclusion, the researcher recommends to use the module as a material to teach academic writing subject in the seventh level in English Major as an alternative to promote this skill with an adequate number of hours. |
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