The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students

This article discusses a study organized to develop academic writing skills in undergraduate students pursuing engineering courses. The target group consisted of 30 students pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in their third year. The classroom observations regarding teaching writing revealed that wri...

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Autor: Kranthi Kumari, B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Europea (UEM)
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Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Information literacy competence
Academic writing
Enseñanza superior
Innovación educacional
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spelling The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering studentsKranthi Kumari, B.Information literacy competenceAcademic writingEnseñanza superiorEnseñanza superiorInnovación educacionalThis article discusses a study organized to develop academic writing skills in undergraduate students pursuing engineering courses. The target group consisted of 30 students pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in their third year. The classroom observations regarding teaching writing revealed that writing proficiency for most of the students was at a very low level. Followed by this, an intervention program was organized in one college, where the researcher taught academic writing to the students. Units comprising tasks that focused on raising awareness of the academic texts and involving the students in the cognitive processes of writing were designed. The study focused on raising student awareness regarding the nature and characteristics of academic texts in order to develop academic writing skills. The study also emphasized that involving the students in the cognitive processes of writing (e.g., defining the rhetorical problem, identifying the rhetorical situation, determining the audience, setting goals for writing, planning for the text by generating, and organizing ideas) is necessary. The study further suggests that discussions between students and teachers regarding the construction of a text and the way language works in various text types facilitates better writing.20172017-01-0320162016-01-0120162016-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11268/6128reponame:ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científicainstname:Universidad Europea (UEM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:abacus.universidadeuropea.com:11268/61282026-06-11T12:41:27Z
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title The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
spellingShingle The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
Kranthi Kumari, B.
Information literacy competence
Academic writing
Enseñanza superior
Enseñanza superior
Innovación educacional
title_short The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
title_full The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
title_fullStr The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
title_full_unstemmed The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
title_sort The role of information literacy competence and higher order thinking skills to develop academic writing in science and engineering students
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kranthi Kumari, B.
author Kranthi Kumari, B.
author_facet Kranthi Kumari, B.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Information literacy competence
Academic writing
Enseñanza superior
Enseñanza superior
Innovación educacional
topic Information literacy competence
Academic writing
Enseñanza superior
Enseñanza superior
Innovación educacional
description This article discusses a study organized to develop academic writing skills in undergraduate students pursuing engineering courses. The target group consisted of 30 students pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in their third year. The classroom observations regarding teaching writing revealed that writing proficiency for most of the students was at a very low level. Followed by this, an intervention program was organized in one college, where the researcher taught academic writing to the students. Units comprising tasks that focused on raising awareness of the academic texts and involving the students in the cognitive processes of writing were designed. The study focused on raising student awareness regarding the nature and characteristics of academic texts in order to develop academic writing skills. The study also emphasized that involving the students in the cognitive processes of writing (e.g., defining the rhetorical problem, identifying the rhetorical situation, determining the audience, setting goals for writing, planning for the text by generating, and organizing ideas) is necessary. The study further suggests that discussions between students and teachers regarding the construction of a text and the way language works in various text types facilitates better writing.
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