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2017 » Papers » Volume 3 » ENHANCING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS' ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH THROUGH E-LEARNING INCENTIVES 1. ENHANCING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS' ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH THROUGH E-LEARNING INCENTIVES Authors: Catana Elisabeta Simona Volume 3 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-17-210 | Pages: 248-253 | Download PDF | Abstract
In the Age of fierce competition in the job market for companies and multinationals, engineering students do not only have to demonstrate their specialised knowledge of the field they will work in, but should also enhance and exhibit their oral and written communication skills, their fluency and accuracy in an international language of communication such as English. That is why this paper will focus on the importance of e-learning for developing the engineering students’ academic writing skills in the English language courses and seminars in a technical university. The paper evinces the necessity of raising the engineering students’ awareness of the fact that academic writing competence must be attached special importance to for their future career in a company office or in an academic and research environment. The paper will enlarge upon: 1) the importance of e-learning tasks for developing the engineering students’ academic writing skills in English and 2) the students’ perspective on the importance of e-learning and traditional learning for enhancing their academic writing skills in English. We will show that by allowing enough time in the English language seminars for insisting on academic writing rules and by encouraging e-learning, we will enable the engineering students to write accurate academic documents and work-related documents in English. Working in a company office requires knowledge of writing documents such as reports, memos, different types of letters in a formal style. That is why this paper shows that the English language courses and seminars in a technical university should focus on accomplishing the following objectives: 1) teaching the students how to structure such documents, what language structures to use and not to use, what written communication strategies to approach to enable them to become good communicators in academic writing; 2) promoting e-learning tasks for developing their academic writing skills in English; 3) encouraging the students to write essays, reports, memos and letters in a formal, academic style and giving them appropriate feedback for improving their work; 4) assessing the students’ academic writing skills in the mid-term and final exams based on e-learning tasks. E-learning incentives will contribute to the students’ successful academic writing. | Keywords
e-learning incentives, academic writing skills, English writing competence. |
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