The importance of Academic Literacies Skills in Postgraduate student writing: Supervisor’s perspective

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The inability to engage in productive academic writing often hinders many postgraduate students to attain their higher education goals. This paper draws on personal experiences as postgraduate supervisor and the language difficulties of most students ─ in regard to ways of thinking, reading, speaking, and writing dominant in the academic setting; involving ways of receiving knowledge, managing knowledge, and creating knowledge.

Academic literacy allows an individual to effectively establish communication within all areas of his/her academic environment. Writing is one of the most interesting and yet permanent form of communication. Most postgraduates do not have the skill to write persuasively or conclusively. Many students whose first language is not English struggle with academic writing and for this reason the article anchor is on sustainable student workshops in essay writing as a beginner’s advancement.  

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