The Development of Academic English Argumentative Essay-Writing Skills Based on Essay Structure of Rolls & Wignell (2013): The Case Study of Lampang Rajabhat University Students
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University students should have high competence in academic English essay-writing skills to produce writing tasks in university academic disciplines and increase their knowledge, intelligence and thinking skills. The structure of the writing process should be provided for students to support their writing skills. This study aimed to develop the academic argumentative English essay-writing skills of students enrolled in the English programme at the Faculty of Education at Lampang Rajabhat University, Thailand. The study focused on academic argumentative essay writing because it is the writing process that help students to develop a persuasive argument supported by evidence, reasoning, examples and information from various sources to convince readers to agree with concrete arguments. The study target group comprised 53 fourth-year students. The stages of the study included the essay structure of Rolls & Wignell (2013) and involved multiple steps; namely, essay structure analysis, essay question consideration, a pre-test, tutoring, essay practice, a post-test and data analysis: percentages, means and standard deviations. The study found that the difference between total pre-test and post-test scores was 409 or 36.86%, with a mean difference of 11.06 and a standard deviation of 0.59. These results indicate that academic English argumentative essay-writing skills can be developed by using Rolls & Wignell’s (2013) essay structure, which can support students’ writing skills to meet similar standards of writing English essays and be successful in studying at bachelor degree level.
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บทความนี้ยังไม่เคยลงตีพิมพ์ในวารสารใดมาก่อน และไม่อยู่ระหว่างการพิจารณาของวารสารอื่น
บทความที่ลงพิมพ์เป็นข้อคิดเห็น/แนวคิด/ทัศนคติของผู้เขียนเท่านั้น หากเกิดผลทางกฎหมายใดๆที่อาจ
เกิดขึ้นจากบทความนี้ ผู้เขียนจะเป็นผู้รับผิดชอบ และบทความนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสารเท่านั้น
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