Introductory Material - Critical Review - Helping Students Meet The Challenges of Academic Writing

The start of the course has been quite successful. The start of the course has been focusing on academic writing. Some of the articles that have been reviewed this far can help students improve their writing skills. For instance, Helping students meet the challenges of academic writing is an article that has been written by Fernsten, Linda & Mary Reda that has been reviewed in this course this far. The article contains information related to some of the shortcomings that affect adversely the confidence of writers. It explains the cause of inferiority complex amongst writers and how best students can overcome inferiority complex and hence become competent writers. The article also reviews some actions in class that may cause inferiority complex amongst students when they are writing their assignments. It also provides suitable courses of actions that can be used by students to overcome the inferiority complex that students face when writing their assignments. As such, Helping students meet the challenges of academic writing by Fernsten, Linda & Mary Reda being one of the introductory material that have been used in this course so far makes it justifiable to say that the introductory material in this course have useful in helping students improve on the quality of their writing.

The starting of this course has also been useful in providing sources in the internet that can be useful to students in helping them improve on their academic writing. The weekly forums have helped to realize several sources on the internet that can help students learn about academic writing. For instance, such online sources of academic writing as purdueonline.com have been useful to students in helping them learn about academic writing.