An ESP syllabus for improving academic writing by using fiction genre

Abstract

"The objectives to reach this research were to distinguish the difficulties students face when writing College papers as well as to identify their needs to finally improve their writing skill by creating a syllabus. The syllabus proposed in this research is a task-based syllabus instruction. The respondents were seven students who belong to CELE (Center for English language education) in Puebla city. The results of the present research show that students express their disposition to practice essential functions in academic writing such as analyzing and making assumptions from non-fiction literature. Another result showed in this research is that students find difficult to include their own voice into their academic papers. Another result showed that students are not familiarized with the habit of writing. Another result showed in this research is that students do not meet writing requirements due to misinterpretations when receiving instructions. The conclusions got in this research are writing and reading must cover the same importance in the process of writing because students become critical thinkers when reading. Another conclusion is that students can become more autonomous by showing them how to edit their drafts before delivering them to the teacher".