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Initially, study of the relationship between academic writing, assessment and approaches to learning
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Although Chinese undergraduate students majoring in English as a foreign language (EFL) need to master English academic writing, they still have some challenges in learning English academic writing. ChatGPT has gradually been applied to academic writing, which play an important role in improving students' academic writing. Therefore, the purpose of...
Enhancing academic publication outcomes and writing skills in postgraduates is a key goal for higher education institutions, ideally through early intervention. This study examines the challenges and support needs of early-stage Chinese postgraduates in academic writing, as well as the factors influencing their publication outcomes and writing self...
To meet the current trends in higher education, there is accountability on EAP programmes to prepare and assess students' access to higher education. Thus, multimodal tasks including integrated writing (IW) assessments have seen a resurgence because they arguably closely mirror academic writing. However, test practicality constraints and variabilit...
With a statistical analysis of arXiv paper abstracts, we report a marked drop in the frequency of several words previously identified as overused by ChatGPT, such as "delve", starting soon after they were pointed out in early 2024. The frequency of certain other words favored by ChatGPT, such as "significant", has instead kept increasing. These phe...
The use of different generative AIs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google’s Gemini has been implemented and studied in different aspects of language education. However, exploring how the combination of teacher-generated feedback and AI-generated feedback influences student revision practices in EFL academic writing remains largely...
Nowadays, AI chatbots like ChatGPT have brought many innovations to different fields, especially in education. Due to ChatGPT’s benefits, users tend to become overly reliant on using it in their learning process. Postgraduate students who have to face the transition into higher education might face difficulties in their writing tasks because it req...
The study investigates how students perceive, use, and evaluate Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in a BA Academic English Writing course. Tools like ChatGPT, Quillbot, and Grammarly have transformed traditional study aids, enhancing the writing process. The research question is: How do students' perceptions of using Generative AI (GAI) as a...
The integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into university-level academic writing presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly in relation to cognitive dissonance (CD). This work explores how GenAI serves as both a trigger and amplifier of CD, as students navigate ethical concerns, academic integrity, and self-efficac...
Note-taking is generally regarded as an effective learning strategy, but it is also cognitively demanding. Students often omit salient information in their notes due to the burden of trying to listen while writing down what they hear. Two alternative forms to traditional note-taking are online collaborative note-taking and instructor-provided notes...
Introduction: this study addresses issues in students' academic writing by proposing peer feedback as a strategy to improve university students' advanced (B1-B2) academic writing skills. The intervention took place over a sixteen-week course at a private university in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Methods: an action research was conducted, integrating quanti...
Chatbots, such as Chat GPT, have become widespread in recent years and are used in many areas. Academic writing and publishing also take their share from this field. However, some ethical issues and violations may arise regarding the use of chatbots. In some academic writing and publishing services, there has been a situation where chatbots have st...
To reflect that the large population of multilingual writers can translanguage in their writing information literacy practice, this study first conducted interviews to understand this phenomenon. The analysis of the interviews and expert judgement informed the development and validation of a translingual writing information literacy scale. The stat...
This paper presents an AI-generated review of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, summarizing key methodologies, findings, and future directions. The content is produced using large language models (LLMs) and is intended only for demonstration purposes. This work does not represent original research, but highlights how AI can help automate literat...
This qualitative descriptive study provides a comprehensive profile of scientific academic writing skills among university students enrolled in mathematics education and primary school teacher education programs. Using a self-assessment survey, 110 students evaluated their proficiency across various dimensions of scientific writing, including clari...
The College of Multaqa Al-Nahrain University held a training workshop on the basics of writing university reports and research, in which the engineer Dr.Farkad Adnan, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering Technology, lectured in the conference hall on 2/5/2025. The lecture added new and valuable information, and the Assistant D...
This paper examines the fundamental differences between school writing and scholarly writing. Despite their superficial similarities, the two genres serve different social functions and thus employ the same textual features differently. Through the lens of rhetorical genre studies (RGS), the article explores how genres mediate social actions and ho...
Long-form generation is crucial for academic writing papers and repo-level code generation. Despite this, current models, including GPT-4o, still exhibit unsatisfactory performance. Existing methods that utilize preference learning with outcome supervision often fail to provide detailed feedback for extended contexts. This shortcoming can lead to c...
Deepseek and Qwen large language models (LLM) became popular at the beginning of 2025 with their low-cost and open-access LLM solutions. A company based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, announced its new LLM, DeepSeek v3, in December 2024. Then, Alibaba released its AI model, Qwen 2.5 Max, on January 29, 2025. These tools, which are free, open-source,...
Writing scientific arguments is an essential skill in higher education, yet first-year students often face difficulties in constructing systematic and evidence-based arguments. This study aims to analyze the application of the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) framework in learning to write scientific arguments in higher education. Using a descripti...
The following study analyzes peer assessment's impact on improving academic writing skills. Peer assessment allows students to review tasks from other classmates; this is a controlled environment where students can evaluate each other's work to give feedback on each activity, working in class as a learning strategy. This research examines how contr...
The emergence of ChatGPT in higher education has raised immense discussion due to its versatility in performing tasks, including coding, personalized learning, human-like conversations, and information retrieval. Despite the rapidly growing use of ChatGPT, a dire need still exists for an overarching view regarding its role and implications in educa...
El trabajo aborda la escritura académica como requisito para la graduación de los alumnos de la Licenciatura de Psicología en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, en el marco del Taller de Producción Textual. Esta condición de egreso surge a partir de la reforma del Plan de Estudios de 2012, que implicó, entre otras modificaciones, la inclusión del...
The use of AI in the education field has become common, especially in academic writing. However, students faced many of the challenges in using AI for academic writing. This study aims to discover the students’ challenges and solutions in using AI-based tools for academic writing. The research method used was a descriptive qualitative design. The r...
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in academic writing has raised concerns about academic integrity. AI tools like ChatGPT enable students to generate essays and research papers with ease, prompting universities to adopt AI detection tools such as Turnitin AI Detection, GPTZero, and ZeroGPT. However, the effectiveness and ethical im...
Recent studies have identified ChatGPT as an epistemic authority; however, no research has yet examined how epistemic beliefs and metacognitive accuracy impact actual work with ChatGPT-generated content, which is often prone to factual inaccuracies. Therefore, the present experimental study aimed to examine how university students integrate correct...
There is unending confusion over the traditional Samaritan dating of historical events in modern academic writing. This has caused confusion over the real dates of important historical events. Most authors rely on Chronicle Adler, a composition in Hebrew made in 1900. It is forgotten that this book relies on older books that are known, even though...
This paper examined the effect of gender and language proficiency on the translation and judgments of ten contrastive discourse markers: but, however, nevertheless, instead, rather, in contrast, on the other hand, yet, still, on the contrary. The participants were 77 Saudi undergraduate males and females majoring in English and Translation. They we...
Background and objectives Assessing and improving academic writing skills is a crucial component of higher education. To support students in this endeavor, a comprehensive self-assessment toolkit was developed to provide personalized feedback and guide their writing improvement. The current study aimed to rigorously evaluate the validity and reliab...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic writing has gained significant attention globally, yet its implications remain underexplored in developing countries like Pakistan. This qualitative study investigates the role of AI tools in undergraduate and postgraduate assessments within the Pakistani academic context, focusing o...
This qualitative descriptive study provides a comprehensive profile of scientific academic writing skills among university students enrolled in mathematics education and primary school teacher education programs. Using a self-assessment survey, 110 students evaluated their proficiency across various dimensions of scientific writing, including clari...
Flow, a state of deep task engagement, is associated with optimal experience and well-being, making its detection a prolific HCI research focus. While physiological sensors show promise for flow detection, most studies are lab-based. Furthermore, brain sensing during natural work remains unexplored due to the intrusive nature of traditional EEG set...
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Assessing and improving academic writing skills is a crucial component of higher education. To support students in this endeavor, a comprehensive self-assessment toolkit was developed to provide personalized feedback and guide their writing improvement. The current study aimed to rigorously evaluate the validity and reliab...
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly influences education, understanding learners' experiences, engagement and literacy of these tools is critical. This study explores AI literacy among Turkish English as a Foreign Language students regarding their familiarity, knowledge, and ethical perceptions of AI technologies in academic writing. Using...
With the accelerating process of globalization, international academic exchanges are also constantly developing. Having a certain level of foreign language academic writing competence has become a necessary condition for students to participate in international academic exchanges. Therefore, foreign language academic writing has become a focus of a...
Inequitable educational opportunities and academic literacy challenges are pressing issues facing many multilingual learners of English (MLEs) who represent underrepresented populations, including language‐minority, low‐income, immigrant, and first‐generation college students in a secondary education context. These students need additional language...
A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: history of vaccinology smallpox vaccination campaigns vaccination mandates vaccination hesitancy health communication A B S T R A C T Background: In the annals of public health, smallpox is a watershed, being the first disease eradicated by vaccination. Drawing parallels to contemporary pandemic control measures, we...
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides, transforming industries and revolutionizing how we interact with information. One of
the most impactful areas of this evolution lies in text analysis, simplification, classification, and synthesis. This book, Using AI Tools in Text Analysis, Simplification,
Classification, a...
This lexical-statistical study analyzes the lexical frequency of nominal, adjectival and adverbial words of 68 productions of college students who attended the Writing Clinic of the Faculty of Psychology of Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to carry out an exploratory-descriptive study...
Problem: Writing for publication can be a challenging experience. Whilst midwives develop writing skills through their university education, writing a journal article can be quite different.
Purpose: To explain some basic skills of scientific writing when preparing a paper for publication to support midwives in engaging in scientific writing.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly shaped working practices across a variety of fields including academia. Demonstrating a remarkable versatility, these models can generate responses to prompts with information in the form of text, documents, and images, show ability to summarize documents, perform literature searches, and even more, u...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools that can enhance various aspects of academic life, offering support in research, learning, and content generation. This scoping review explores the role of LLMs as an academic resource specifically for students, aiming to map the current literature and identify key applications, benefits,...
Despite the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in foreign language education, research on how learners perceive and engage with AI tools remains limited. This study explores the perceptions and behaviors of Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners regarding AI-assisted second/foreign language (L2) writing. Through qualitative t...
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This study investigates the factors influencing the academic writing performance of English Communication students at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG). Through a qualitative research design, the study explores students' perceptions of the factors affecting their academic writing. Data were collected using open-ended questionnaires...
Esta investigación tiene el propósito de analizar las prácticas de escritura y reescritura académica que los estudiantes de un programa de maestría en educación realizan al utilizar herramientas digitales para la elaboración de ensayos académicos. A través de un enfoque metodológico que integra la entrevista, el cuestionario y el análisis de conten...
Grammarly and peer feedback have recently become two evaluative approaches that are commonly used in writing classes to provide effective comments on students’ writing (Fahmi & Cahyono, 2021). However, recent studies have only examined their effectiveness on students’ writing skills, neglecting their thoughts and perceptions. To address this gap, t...
This mixed-methods study examines the role of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted learning in academic writing for Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) students in a Chinese university context. Fifty international CSL students were randomly assigned to experimental—AI-assisted learning using ChatGPT—and control—traditional learning—groups. Writing...
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MA students’ interpersonal stance of “it” patterns
This study focuses on a specific aspect of academic writing called the anticipatory “it” pattern, which helps writers express their interpersonal stance. While previous research has looked at how often English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers use or...
Artificial intelligence-based Language Tools (AILTs) are being increasingly used in essay writing in higher education. Its application promotes global and multicultural perspectives in education and plays a critical role in advancing scholarly communication and research dissemination. However, these benefits cannot be measured without also consider...
This paper presents the scientists' interest in studying the topic of unfair trade practices in agro-food chains, trying to answer the questions how important is this topic in academic writing and how it interferes with other terms? Exploring and understanding fairness-enabling practices in the agro-food chain is essential to create a sustainable a...
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This study looks at how students view the Quillbot app as a resource for enhancing their academic writing. The main objective is to evaluate how Quillbot's features help students improve their vocabulary, grammar, and writing abilities while also lowering their writing anxiety. 204 university students, ranging in educational level from dip...
The passive voice has been commonly used in academic writing for decades. This research aims to investigate the diachronic changes in the use of passive voice in abstracts across four disciplines in natural sciences and social sciences over the past fifteen years. The study corpus comprises 180 abstracts in four disciplines, ranging from 2008-2012,...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming academic writing, providing tools that can save up to 80 hours in the literature review process for a research article. However, its use raises important ethical questions. Prestigious publications, such as Science, have updated their guidelines to distinguish between legitimate and improper applications...
In recent years, English academic writing has received wide attention in the field of English teaching in recent years. It is found that the English academic writing ability of Chinese university students is generally low. More than 80% of the English papers submitted by graduate students to international conferences or international journals are r...
La evaluación formativa en escritura académica es reconocida por su potencial tanto para la mejora de los textos como para el desarrollo de los escritores. Este artículo evalúa los efectos de la retroalimentación proporcionada por ChatGPT y por revisores pares a la escritura de introducciones de tesis en un círculo de escritura en posgrado. Se llev...
La enseñanza de la escritura académica constantemente presenta carencias lingüísticas, semánticas y científicas; los centros de escritura académica surgen como propósito de aminorar dificultades que se presentan en la composición de textos. El presente trabajo tuvo como propósito proporcionar estrategias para el proceso de la escritura académica en...
Paragraph writing is a fundamental skill in academic writing, requiring learners to articulate a single theme supported by coherent evidence. This study investigates the strategies employed and experiences encountered by first-year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.) learners in writing paragraphs. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research integra...
Academic English writing is a crucial component of undergraduate English education. However, undergraduates commonly face challenges such as unclear topic selection, imprecise language expression, and a lack of depth and logical coherence in analysis and argumentation. This study, grounded in AGIL theory (Adaption, Goal Attainment, Integration, Lat...
This chapter presents minor-to-minor epistemological and methodological relations between emerging strands in Romani studies, the Roma co-researchers’ vernacular viewpoints, theories of creolization emerging from the Caribbean, and theatre-based methods. It takes as a starting point a project aimed at ‘empowering’ Southeast European migrant Roma wo...
CQPweb, a web-based fourth-generation corpus analysis tool, combines corpus resource sharing with online retrieval functions. This paper selects online corpora based on CQPweb and introduces data-driven learning (DDL) to a medical academic writing course for English as a second language (ESL) biomedical PhD candidates. The study indicates that quer...
Writing is an important communicative language skill. It is an activity that requires a mental effort to “think out” the sentences and the ways of joining them to be meaningful and communicative. The present study was set up to the effectiveness of collaborative instruction on developing EFL students’ writing ability and also to delve into their at...
Large language models (LLMs), represented by ChatGPT, are one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in generative AI and have begun to be applied in EFL writing instruction. The advent of LLMs presents both opportunities and challenges for EFL learners, underscoring the importance of empirical evidence on their motivation and acceptan...
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Despite growing global interest in the emotional dimensions of academic writing, Romanian academic discourse remains underexplored, particularly in multilingual contexts. This study addresses this gap by analyzing a bilingual corpus of texts written in Romanian (L1) and English (L2) across various disciplines and genres. It aims to unc...
This study examines the challenges Bangla-medium students in Bangladesh face when transitioning to English-based higher education. Despite years of English instruction, many struggle with comprehension, academic writing, and classroom engagement due to exam-driven learning, limited exposure to spoken English, and ineffective pedagogy. Socioeconomic...
A thesis is a compulsory assignment that should be created at the end of the study by the master’s students to earn their degree. The Introduction is one of the most challenging sections of this thesis. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the rhetorical moves organization used by Indonesian master’s students in their theses introductions, using...
Navigating academic writing in a non-native language poses significant challenges for graduate students, particularly those studying in a linguistically and culturally distinct environment. This research explores the multifaceted experiences of non-Arabic speaking graduate students in Arab universities, emphasizing the language barriers and their p...
It is assumed that a reference management software, such as EndNote, systematizes the intricate process of source management and citation in academic writing by providing users with the ability to construct personalized digital libraries. This paper explores the validity of this postulation, specifically within the context of the American Psycholog...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing management research by enabling more efficient data analysis, decision-making, and operational workflows. However, its application also raises questions about its transformative role and implications for academic writing in this field. A systematic review of literature published over the past decade w...
This study examined givenness in discourse via passive constructions in research articles. While it is commonly held in grammar books and grammar classes that the passive voice is the counterpart of the active voice, the present study argues that Argument movement in passive constructions can act as a syntactic device contributing to sound semantic...
Including artificial intelligence (AI) in academic writing has spurred a critical review of its ethical and legal ramifications in learning environments. As companies embrace AI tools like ChatGPT, questions about authorship, intellectual property, and academic integrity have become central concerns that need careful examination, as institutions do...
Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto (Open Access) sob a licença Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução em qualquer meio, sem restrições desde que sem fins comerciais, sem alterações e que o trabalho original seja corretamente citado. Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada, ano 23, n...
ChatGPT is a recent and famous AI tool that has triggered debates about its potential implications in research, education, and enhancing language practices and skills. This study manipulated the SWOT analysis framework and systematic review to outline and scrutinize AI tools, including ChatGPT's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, in...
The concept of collocation is deeply rooted in modern linguistics, and it is studied extensively. Most studies focused on structure, frequency, and association measures of collocates while other studies focused on semantic prosody and collocation competence. These studies have consistently found that words tend to co-occur within certain parameters...
Proficiency in multimodal writing is becoming progressively crucial for students, particularly in the realm of academic writing. Nevertheless, the existing learning materials in higher education fail to adequately meet those requirements. Hence, the goal of this study is to create a workbook that will assist students in improving their ability to w...
This study examined the use of shell nouns in the academic writing of science undergraduate students at Mukuba University, Zambia, focusing on their frequency, patterns, and functions across multiple disciplines. The topic was chosen due to the critical role of shell nouns in enhancing coherence, formality, and objectivity in academic writing, whic...
La investigación aborda las dificultades y barreras que enfrentan los y las estudiantes de doctorado en educación a lo largo de su formación. Utilizando una muestra de 30 estudiantes del programa de doctorado en educación de una universidad del País Vasco (España)o, se exploraron sus experiencias y percepciones a través de preguntas abiertas, anali...
Writing cohesive and engaging narrative texts requires effective use of clause complexity to convey meaning and maintain reader interest. This research examines clause complexity in a narrative text written by a student in the English Education Program at the University of Palangka Raya, focusing on Central Kalimantan folklore. Using a qualitative...
City image is the specific perception, overall view and comprehensive evaluation of the internal and external public of a city on the internal comprehensive strength, external appearance and vitality of the region and its future prospects. As an international metropolis, shanghai's city image is related to the development of shanghai. Accordingly,...
Academic writing can be challenging for many students despite being vital to education. An academic paper's essential components are time, effort, research, organisation, and coherence. Developing educational writing assistants is to assist students with this process. An opportunity exists to develop further and optimise academic writing and learni...
This study investigates the usage of online academic writing tools and reference management software among postgraduate students in North-west Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was employed, with a sample of 420 doctoral students from four regional universities. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive a...
Background: The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the CISG or the Convention) may apply autonomously in Arab Contracting States, such as Egypt and Bahrain. The CISG may also be applied indirectly, i.e., by virtue of the rules of private international law, whether in Arab Contracting or non-Contracting State...
Technologies are inserted in educational innovation, giving the possibility of incorporatingdigital tools in research approaches. In this scenario, Scrivener and Evernote are digital tools for academic writing; they allow you to insert written notes, voice notes, summaries, documents,images, quotes from authors, audios, links, among others. The for...
The immediate advancement of artificial intelligence has introduced tools like ChatGPT, which are transforming academic practices among university students. This study investigates the frequency of ChatGPT usage, its perceived benefits, and students, views on its impact on academic tasks. Using a mixed- methods approach, the research combines quant...