AN INVESTIGATION OF WRITERS’ BLOCK THROUGH RHETORICAL SITUATION

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v0i0.2978

Keywords:

writers’ block, rhetorical problems, rhetorical situation, assignment, audience

Abstract

Students do experience writing blocks. Writers’ blocks are caused by many reasons. When writers write, they face rhetorical problems. Past studies have shown that these problems are easily solved by skilled writers. However, less skilled writers may take a longer time to get out of the rhetorical problems. Rhetorical problems can be categorized into two. Firstly, many writers face problems due to their failure to attend to their own goals (writers’ own goal). Next, writers also face problems with rhetorical situation. Rhetorical situations can be categorized as problems with the assignment and problems with the audience. This qualitative study explored the causes of writers’ block among three different levels of writers. Findings revealed that the three levels of writers had different causes of writing blocks. Some were caused by paying attention to perfection, some feared not being understood by the readers.

 

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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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2020-04-03

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Vol 5, No 3 (2020)

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