NOTES ON INFORMAL STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC WRITING TRAINING

Rodica Ioana LUNG, Tudor Dan Mihoc

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First page
679
Last page
684

Abstract


In a time when top ranked research institutions provide their students with academic writing support in various forms (training, courses, writing centers, etc.), a Roumanian university is starting to cope with this particular need and to design, within a research project, an appropriate and realistic program for academic writing skills development. This paper analyses existing academic writing mentoring approaches in the literature and proposes a framework for experienced researchers to train doctoral and postdoctoral studens in an informal, yet organized manner.

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