Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (IcoSIHESS 2019)

Investigating Written Feedback on Students’ Academic Writing

Authors
Andi Wirantaka
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Andi Wirantaka
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icosihess-19.2019.1How to use a DOI?
Keywords
feedback, written feedback, academic writing, students’ writing
Abstract

Written feedback in academic writing is an essential factor that enables teacher and students to interact with each other in order to improve students’ writing. This research aims to find out the types of written feedback the teachers use for students’ academic writing, the most useful feedback, and effective feedbacks as perceived by students to help them improve academic writing. The present study employed a descriptive qualitative research design. To collect the data, interview was used. Participants of the research were five students in an English Education Department in a private university in Yogyakarta. During the data collection process, the students were in the process of writing their undergraduate thesis as the fulfilment for undergraduate degree. The findings indicated that there were three types of written feedback i.e. symbols, note, and error correction. Additionally, students perceived written feedback related to the grammar to be the most useful written feedback for them. At last, students perceived that effective written feedback should be understandable meaning that feedback should be simple, clear, and easy to understand. Moreover, effective feedback should also be detailed.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (IcoSIHESS 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-813-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icosihess-19.2019.1How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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