Academic Writing Intervention - An Alternative for Non-Thesis Track Students’ Final Paper Supervision

Nita Novianti

2017

Abstract

Non-thesis track students in Indonesian universities are required to submit a final research-based or scientific paper as part of the requirements for their graduation. However, they do not receive supervision as is given to the thesis-track students. Therefore, this study aims to implement Academic Writing Intervention program to help students produce quality scientific papers publishable in anthologies or journals and improve their academic writing skills. Participants in this study consisted of two lecturers teaching non-thesis courses and 15 students of an English literature program of a state university in Indonesia for the even semester of the 2016/2017 academic year. The comparison between the papers written before and after the Academic Writing Intervention program shows great improvement in the quality of the paper produced after the intervention program. Overall, the students gave positive responses to the intervention program. However, great reliance on the lecturers reduces the students’ autonomy in the writing process. Some recommendations for the department and higher education in general regarding the implementation of this program to assist students in writing publishable scientific papers are given.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Novianti N. (2017). Academic Writing Intervention - An Alternative for Non-Thesis Track Students’ Final Paper Supervision.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 813-817. DOI: 10.5220/0007175608130817

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Nita Novianti},
title={Academic Writing Intervention - An Alternative for Non-Thesis Track Students’ Final Paper Supervision},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={813-817},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007175608130817},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Academic Writing Intervention - An Alternative for Non-Thesis Track Students’ Final Paper Supervision
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Novianti N.
PY - 2017
SP - 813
EP - 817
DO - 10.5220/0007175608130817