TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING IN TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Modern approaches to teaching courses on academic writing at tertiary educational institutions are based on American and European traditions. The reason for their use lies in the fact that domestic students have to present their research projects at international conferences and seminars, publish the results of the projects in foreign scientific journals. Besides, mastering the skills of academic writing helps students acquire new knowledge and become more competitive professionals at the job market. The purpose of the article is to analyze modern approaches used to teach academic writing relevant for Ukrainian tertiary educational institutions. The authors have justified the use of process writing as the main way of teaching academic writing and outlined basic stages of process writing that comprise inventing, drafting, revising, and editing. At the inventing stage, students may use such techniques that make the writing process more effective as tree diagram or map, outline (traditional or rough), listing, clustering, freewriting, looping, asking questions, and cubing. The difference between reviewing and editing is given. Revising is performed at the global level and makes students look at the draft as a whole idea, while editing is done at the local level of sentence or word and means correcting lexical, grammatical, punctuation, and stylistic errors.