Assertions and Alternatives: Helping ESL Undergraduates Extend Their Choices in Academic Writing.

Allison, Desmond

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ERIC Number: EJ501423

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Publication Date: 1995

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Assertions and Alternatives: Helping ESL Undergraduates Extend Their Choices in Academic Writing.

Allison, Desmond

Journal of Second Language Writing, v4 n1 p1-15 Jan 1995

Discusses short extracts from essays written by first-year undergraduates following an English-as-a-Second-Language medium humanities curriculum at the University of Hong Kong. Some of the wording reflected unintended knowledge claims. Feedback sessions on students' essays looked into ways in which a writer's factual or evaluative claims might be advanced, qualified, or assumed. (40 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, English (Second Language), Essays, Expository Writing, Feedback, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Word Recognition, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong

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