There are sociolinguistic and educational problems that prevent a fully effective practice of academic writing in the current context of Ecuador, and methodological proposals are offered that could be considered the starting ...

Writing is a task that entails high cognitive and linguistic efforts, especially when producing academic texts. Academic language might be one of the factors influencing the quality of written texts, given that prior ...

Writing is a fundamental competence for the development of learning in teacher training, however, according to the evidence, the performance of Chilean students is insufficient. Therefore the aim of the research was to ...

Scholarly publications are a key component of academics’ development in their roles as teachers and researchers. Writing groups seem to be effective to accompany this process as participants share their texts to improve ...

The enforcement of quality assurance stipulations at tertiary institutions has renewed the drive within academia to evaluate, defend, and revise educational practices. Stakeholders from the corporate world, other faculties, ...

Capitalizing on the implementation of a writing assessment initiative implemented at a major Chilean university, we test how predictive writing is of subsequent academic achievement. First, using a multilevel analytic ...

Scholarly publications are a key component of academics’ development in their roles as teachers and researchers. Writing groups seem to be effective to accompany this process as participants share their texts to improve ...

Writing is one of the main challenges doctoral students face in their process of becoming researchers. Nonetheless, institutional initiatives to support writing processes are relatively recent and not necessarily ...