Reading and Writing Skills of Scientific Articles for Undergraduate Students: Benefits and Challenges

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10.2991/icli-17.2018.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading, scientific article, english student

Abstract

This study aims to explore challenges and benefits attained by students when they read scientific articles for their purpose of research outline. Five English education students of the 5th semester in Mulawarman University, Indonesia, participated in this study. They were required to search 12 scientific articles that had similar topic they were interested in. They were taught and demonstrated how to find out scientific articles, take a note, paraphrase and summarize. The findings obtained from the students' reflections and documents indicated that determining the topic and new vocabularies, highlighting important words, paraphrasing, and managing the time were complicated. However, as they became accustomed with the assignment, they knew more about scientific articles, gained new vocabularies, and were better in managing their time. They were content since the task had provided them insight for their mini thesis.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dyah Sunggingwati
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DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Reading and Writing Skills of Scientific Articles for Undergraduate Students: Benefits and Challenges
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 167
EP  - 171
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icli-17.2018.32
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