Authors:
Abdul Razaque Lanjwani Jat ,Syed Waqar Ali Shah,Ayaz Jarah,Siraj Ahmed Chana and Javeed Iqbal Mirani ,Pakistan
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Abstract:
Academic writing is a form of testing; moreover, most of the writing tasks and assignments
across the country school curriculum, the designers of the writing assignments is also the
audience and the evaluator, and that designer-evaluator expects student-writers to demonstrate
particular knowledge and skills. Hence, like all the tests designers, developers of writing
assignments should carefully consider different purposes, the parameters and constraints, and the
evaluation criteria for each writing assignment. In this paper, we discussed organizational
problems in essay writing such as, topic sentences, thesis statements, cohesion, coherence,
completeness and unity. We applied a qualitative method for data collection. For this, we
selected one hundred students to write essays on different topics. Among them, we chose twenty
written essays for data analysis. The findings suggested that students have organizational
problems in English essay writing. It was found in their writings that most of the students have
difficulties in organization their essay. Students get difficulties in introduction, topic sentence,
thesis statement, transition of ideas, and use of cohesive devices, sequence and writing
conclusion. There are certain reasons. Firstly, the effects of background information of particular
topic and general information. Secondly, the low language proficiency, the students get it
difficulty to create coherence and unity in their writings. It is because they give more importance
to language and meanings |
