Genre analysis of essays in the Social Sciences: The case of Botswana students
Reading & Writing
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Genre analysis of essays in the Social Sciences: The case of Botswana students | |
| Creator | Magogwe, Joel M. Nkateng, Unity M. | |
| Description | Writing is a challenging but requisite skill at university and other life situations. At university, essay writing is generally challenging to first-year students across disciplines or faculties. This study therefore describes the writing challenges of the Faculty of Social Sciences students at the University of Botswana. To that end, this study asks the following research questions: (1) What writing tasks are first-year students in the Faculty of Social Sciences given? (2) What problems do the students encounter when writing essays in the Faculty of Social Sciences? (3) What kind of assistance do students receive on writing essays? This article is underpinned by the English for Academic Purposes genre analysis framework. All in all, the findings of this study point to the need for a more intensive writing programme for first-year students at the University of Botswana in which both faculties and the Communication and Study Skills Unit will cooperatively assist students with writing. Students’ responses clearly indicated the need for such collaboration. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2018-01-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/rw.v9i1.137 | |
| Source | Reading & Writing; Vol 9, No 1 (2018); 6 pages 2308-1422 2079-8245 | |
| Language | eng | |
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