GUIDELINES FOR WRITING WORK METHOD STATEMENTS IN PLAIN ENGLISH

The results illustrate the mismatch between student and instructor perceptions of the problems associated with students' written work. Whereas students selected vocabulary as offering the greatest challenge (62%), instructors clearly indicated style as being of greatest concern (92%). Students generally underestimated their problems, with large discrepancies for style and grammar when compared with the instructors’ perceptions. Clearly this academic barrier will lead to an escalation of academic culture shock for the overseas students, especially as it was not seen as a barrier by nearly 50% of the students surveyed. Weir (1988) also conducted a wide-ranging survey of instructors ...