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Joanna A framework for 2022 Malaysia -To develop a framework to support postgraduate -Qualitative eight problematic categories in - (i) mastery of academic phrases -writing support
Joseph supporting research writing - Semi-structured students’ writing: lack of and vocabulary; (ii) writing requires
Jeyaraj, Wei postgraduate -How do students experience research writing interviews criticality; lack of persuasively; pedagogically
Keong Too research writing: voice; unreferenced sources, (iii) writing for a specified audience driven writing
& Eni insights from -Challenges in postgraduate research writing Population unsubstantiated statements, and (iv) constructing arguments support;
Ermawati students’ writing - writing in a second language - two overseas university plagiarism; inappropriate - limited academic English pedagogically
Lasito experiences -plagiarism campuses referencing vocabulary affected students’ informed supervision;
-referencing styles conventions; lack of clear abilities in paraphrasing and targeted and
1. -(grammar and vocabulary, organization Sampling relevance and focus; inappropriate - institutional support services and systematic
and flow of ideas, critical thinking and plagiarism) - purposeful sampling academic style; tools -targeted and practical peripheral support
-drop-out due to academic writing technique unclear expression (language training sessions; peer support
- only Masters or PhD concerns) and cohesive and (conversations); proofreading and
level students structural weaknesses editing services; ICT tools
- twenty-four students (Grammarly and Ginger); video
confirmed participation - inaccessibility to resources and tutorials; and administrative
14 PhD and 10 Masters support by the institution support.
- lack of timely and constructive
feedback from supervisors - - postgraduate research writing
complicate the research writing support to be pedagogically driven -
process writing instruction should be
-Supporting postgraduate research explicitly taught
writing - centralized units within an
-Research supervision institution, in collaboration with
supervisors
- investment of time and resources
Gbolahan An evaluation of 2017 South assess the impact of YouTube videos about -Experimentation myths in second language writing -assess the educational value of faculty members
Olasina educational Africa academic writing and its skills on the writing -Qualitative Writing errors YouTube videos for academic need to evolve new
values of performance of students lack of creativity writing approaches not only
2 YouTube videos -Theoretical perspectives University of KwaZulu-Natal and -What kinds and characteristics of to engage and
for Academic from constructivism more recently, the Durban experiences are present in student motivate learners,
Writing University of Technology interactions with YouTube videos but to enhance
Population established academic writing for academic writing? teaching by using
-40 students – 20 divisions and centers to enhance -Is there a difference in academic media such as
students -traditional the improvement of academic writing performance between the YouTube videos and
teaching & 20 on YouTube writing. traditional teaching group and the exploit their viability
YouTube facilitated group? to supplement
-students broken into two challenges of the adoption and use 3. To what extent can YouTube traditional learning
groups – of educational technologies in videos fit into improving academic spaces.
ontrol/traditional developing countries writing performance?
teaching and the
treatment/YouTube -current academic curricula pay a
facilitated groups high premium for learning how to
--dominant qualitative write, express, communicate
approach is adopted knowledge and to the early
using focus group exposure of students to academic
discussion, interviews writing- academic writing is at the
and tests foundation of higher education -
pretest and post-test students understand proper
qualitative and formatting, language, style,
quantitative approaches grammar, referencing, citations
and methods to produce a paper
research design is semi-
 experimental
focus group, in-depth
interview and tests
(quantitative strands

Pam An Introduction 2021 WLIC Lists the existence of writing centres in many Long list of world writing centres
Bromley, to Transatlantic nations of the world
Katrin Writing Center
Girgensohn, Resources
Kara
Northway
and Eliana
Schonberg
3
Martha Design and 2021 Thailand Discusses the establishment of a writing centre in - exploring writing center -community partners who might -peer-staffed writing center
Olson, Implementation one Thai university methodology, training need assistance with writing -funding for this writing center is a
Sutraphorn of the First Peer- peer tutors, and projects major challenge
Tantiniranat, Staffed -monetize the writing center through referrals to progressing a community -provide the framework for -staff have other commitments –
Molly WritingCenter in faculty members wishing to freelance as editors of practice. collaboration with university teaching, extracurricular, research,
McHarg, Thailand and proofreaders for other professionals faculty and community contributions
and requiring this kind of service, in addition to -established 2019
Weraphon providing assistance to students needing help -struggling with writing her -needs to gain acceptance and
Carmesak with writing skills research value
4 -English writing – -needs to demonstrate its value
Established 2019
Makhanya, Characterising 2021 South -lament their students’ abilities to write for -reflective investigation -high rates of attrition at many -build partnerships
Fezokuhle collaboration: Africa academic purposes -in-depth interviews universities globally and how these -formation of collaboration
Mfundo; Reflecting on a -relationships of epistemic asymmetry - epistemic -qualitative research rates tend to be attributed to
Qwabe, partnership ways of knowing that are devalued belong to the study students’ lack of preparedness
Lindelani; between individual coming from the less ‘scientific’ -decolonization approach rather than the university’s
Bryant, academic discipline to research practices
Katie support staff and -devalued perception of the writing centre - inquiry is the method -Student writing receiving a
lecturers to help writing centre becomes a place of remediation majority of complaints about
5 university -academic collaboration students’ inability to write
students learn -each discipline of study is a
how to write for specific community of practice
the discipline of (Wenger, 1998) with its own ways
chemistry of constructing knowledge and
using language to shape and
convey this knowledge
-writing pedagogy, writing studies,
and writing centre work
Brenda Daystar 2020 Kenya BLOG - Connecting Writing Centers Across -writing and speech centre
Wambua University Borders (CWCAB) -started in 1999
Writing and -housed in the Language and
6 Speech Centre, Performing Arts Department
Nairobi, Kenya -lack of funds and sometimes lack
of office space
-3-hour credit course on advanced
speech and writing
-grammar, sentence construction,
choosing a research topic, writing
a thesis statement and an essay
outline, speech writing, paragraph
development, strategies of peer
tutoring, handling difficult tutees,
citations
Levent Ali The effect of 2022 Turkey (Moroccan students learning Turkish in Turkey) Case study - teaching of Turkish as a foreign - to minimize the negative transfer
Çanakli* multilingualism qualitative design and language by multilingual students, provide
and Şükrü on the writing data of the study were students with writing skills activities
Baştürk skills of obtained through based
Moroccan document analysis on comprehension
7 students learning -earning the correct spelling of
Turkish as a words
foreign and successful use of spelling rules
language (A1-A2) depends on frequency and careful
implementation of the writing skills
activities.
Jeff Gibbs The Hisar Writing 2020 Turkey Blog a progressive K-12 spearheaded social media
Center, Istanbul, https://www. institution founded in marketing campaigns, helped
8 Turkey wlnjournal.org/blog/2020/05/global-writing- 1996. create advertisements, assisted in
center-spotlight-the- -serves 859 middle and determining center schedules and
hisar-writing-center-istanbul-turkey/ high school students in policies, and led promotional
grades five through events
twelve, while our affiliate,
Writing Center Junior,
focuses on our primary
school students
-aim to build a
community confident and
fluent in the writing
process, a community
that sees writing as a tool
for learning and
developing critical
thinking
Dr. Rose South African 2015 South Blog The SA WC group is an SA WC community Stellenbosch Writing Lab in 2001.
Richards Writing Centres: Africa https://www.wlnjournal.org/blog/2015/02/ informal body. It’s been about every tertiary institution the English Department
and Sharifa A Conversation south-african-writing-centres-a-conversation- around since the early these days has a writing centre (in
Daniels with Dr. Rose with-dr-rose-richards-and-sharifa-daniels/ 2000s some cases more than one).
9 Richards and have at least 13 WCs in the
Sharifa Daniels country

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2 Mujtaba, et Libya: Exploring Challenges
al. (2017) Encountered by EFL Libyan
Learners in Research
Teaching and Writing
Approach/Design Methods Analysis Services Barriers Enablers Implementation
a mixed method questionnaire have difficulty developing a research project and reporting teachers must encourage their students to
approach and the findings read widely to enrich their knowledge and
interview students should take intensive writing
identify area of interest, choose a topic and formulate a courses to help them write accurately and
researchable problem correctly
writing a literature review, the methodology, results and learners be involved in doing real empirical
discussion sections studies and new and more advanced research
courses should be taught
academic writing the most challenging

teachers had negative attitudes towards their students’

research due to the following reasons: lack of motivation,
insufficient background knowledge about research, lack of
library resources, inadequate number of courses related to

Heron, et al. Turkey : Interdisciplinary
(2022) collaborative writing for
publication with
exiled academics: the nature
3 of relational expertise
Lanchaster Profiling the international
(2018) academic
ghost writers who are
providing
low-cost essays and
assignments
for the contract cheating
4 industry
5 Almatarneh Malaysia: The Academic
& Rashid Writing Experience of
(2018) Jordanian Postgraduate
Students at a University in
Malaysia
research, and the unavailability of Internet in the college
Qualitative study focus group Managerial conflict Collaborative writing can stimulate thinking
interviews Authorial resistance Academic roles and responsibilities
Time and space Authorial recognition
Observation ghost writers
Online data contract cheating, ethical dilemmas,
analysis contract cheating - business
bypassing learning, receive academic credit they do not deserve
Plagiarism detection software is susceptible
case study online Writing in English for academic purpose is a difficult task to achieve a minimal level of English extensive
approach, questionnaires language proficiency in reading, writing, language
lack of vocabulary, difficulties in expressing the ideas, organizing
speaking and listening.
In-depth the sentences and creating paragraphs, paraphrasing, the inability to support at the
build critical discussions and ideas, erroneous grammar, spellings,
qualitative weak referencing and difficulty in finding the article/journal for writing problems in academic assignments university, regular
interviews literature reviewfelt lost and anxious as they did not know how to such as critical reviews, paraphrasing, lectures and
start, develop or end the essay difficulties in their efforts to adjust grammar, cohesion, summaries, thesis workshops on
qualitative and
with the writing, lack of ideas, vocabularies, spellings, improving
quantitative
English language communication and the education system. and punctuations. academic writing
methods
and
The problems in academic writing difficulty in grammar, paraphrasing, finding
the right source/ article/ journal for availability of
i) English as a second language; ii) academic culture; iii) lack of
literature to review, lack of cohesiveness in language
knowledge in writing; and
writing, disorganized patterns of idea and enrichment centre
iv) unexpected patterns of academic writing discussion formats, weak referencing and at the university
weak vocabulary.
writing problems, the JPS suffered from
anxiety, frustration and writer’s block which
further lead to feelings of procrastination
and delay in submission of their
assignments. They used alternative
resources such as internet, software such as
Grammarly, auto-correct on word to help
themselves.