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Shi Pu; Hao Xu – Language and Education, 2024
While research on postgraduate thesis writing has investigated how students cope with institutional assessment criteria, this study explores how students form their own criteria for self-assessment through the writing process, aiming to account for the development of their independent thinking in academic socialisation. Based on in-depth…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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He, Mei; Pramoolsook, Issra – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
Thesis defense presentation slides (TDPS) are a significant and unique genre in the final ritual of master's students' learning journey. However, few studies have explored this genre, especially its rhetorical structure, so students have scant knowledge of it. This study investigates the moves and steps of this genre focusing on their Introduction…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Applied Linguistics, Graduate Students, Asians
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Xie, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2017
The ultimate communicative purpose of literature reviews is to convince the reader of the worthiness of the writer's research, which is realized stage by stage and evaluation plays an important role in achieving this end. However, concerns about evaluation demonstration in novice academic writers' literature reviews have been repeatedly voiced in…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Masters Theses, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs