KNOWLEDGE TRANSFORMING IN WRITING: AN ANALYSIS OF READ-TO-WRITE PROCESS

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  • Noor Hanim Rahmat Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v5i4.3103

Keywords:

academic writing, writers, readers, knowledge transforming, read-to-write

Abstract

Academic writing depends on critical reading. Writers need to read materials to be used as support and evidence in their writing. The writing process of an academic writer mirrors the knowledge transforming model. The link between reading and writing has been established by past studies. The read-to-write process is the academic writing process that writers go through but focused more on the reading activities to prepare for materials to be included in the essay. This study is done to explore the perception of writers in their reading stage (read-to-write process). 176 undergraduates taking academic writing course were randomly chosen to respond to the instrument. The instrument is a 5 Likert-scale with 34 items on topics pertaining to variables found in the knowledge transforming model. Findings reveal that writers take alternative roles and reader and writer in the writing process. Findings also reveal interesting pedagogical implications in the teaching and learning of both academic reading and writing.

 

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  • Noor Hanim Rahmat, Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Noor Hanim Rahmat is an associate professor at Akademi Pengajian Bahasa (Academy of Language Studies) at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. She had more than 5 years of teaching at primary school level in Singapore and more than 26 years of teaching experience at university level in Malaysia. She teaches degree and masters programmes and supervises masters and PhD students at the university. Her research interest includes teaching and learning of writing, educational psychology, sociolinguistics, language proficiency and language studies. She has presented at international conferences, written journal articles, written chapters in books as well as written books.

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2020-06-07

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Vol. 5 No. 4 (2020)

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