An analysis of students’ writing: the design of an online repository as a writing support (original) (raw)

2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE), 2019

Abstract

Good and effective communication skills, in Global Competence Understanding global markets and business particular for technical and scientific writing in English, is practices: languages; work in multicultural important for engineering students who need to have good global environments; global ethics, safety and security; cultural, social and political whose first language is English. Generally, poor writing is also evident in the test statistics of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) where writing has consistently the lowest score band among four test categories, even for those whom English is the first language. Intrigued by this phenomenon, we analyzed the writing of final year technical knowledge as well as competent soft skills. This is awareness increasingly being demanded by professional accreditation bodies. In response, institutions of higher education nowadays have courses or programs that teach students the soft skills part of these requirements, wi...

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