Drawing on Technical Writing Scholarship for the Teaching of Writing to Advanced Esl Students—A Writ...

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Title: Drawing on Technical Writing Scholarship for the Teaching of Writing to Advanced Esl Students—A Writing Tutorial;
Authors and Corporations: Zielinska, Dorota
In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 33, 2003, 2, p. 125-139
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SAGE Publications
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 125-139
ISSN: 0047-2816
1541-3780
DOI: 10.2190/daya-ckxa-ldc2-f95y
published in: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Language: English
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Collection: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> The article outlines the technical writing tutorial (TWT) that preceded an advanced ESL writing course for students of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University. Having assessed the English skills of those students at the end of the semester, we found a statistically significant increase in the performance of the students who had taken the TWT in comparison to the control group who spent the time of TWT doing more traditional exercises. This result indicates that technical writing books and journals should be considered as an important source of information for teachers of writing to ESL students. </jats:p>