Dr Xie Qin Receives the General Research Fund to Study Source-based Academic Writing in English
- 2022
- Research
- Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Dr Xie Qin
Dr Xie Qin has received funding from the General Research Council for her new project titled “Diagnostic assessment of academic writing from sources in English: Investigating the mediation effects of self-regulatory control strategy and discourse synthesis via Structural Equation Modelling”.
The project focuses on source-based academic writing in universities. Writing from sources is an important academic literacy skill essential for university students to succeed in academia. Nonetheless, because it involves a set of complex cognitive, metacognitive, and self-regulatory processes and strategies, source-based integrative writing is extremely challenging. This research will examine key antecedent and process factors and their effects on academic writing.
The research can generate valuable diagnostic information for university-level instruction and assessment of source-based academic writing in English and provide important implications for curriculum design and admission requirements at the tertiary level and have far-reaching influence on English writing education at the secondary level.
