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STUDENTS' RESEARCH WORK-5, SUPERVISED BY MD. MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN SAMEEN
Mustafizur rRhman:
Student Questionnaire:
The student Questionnaire contained eleven items. Here they are:
Student Table: 1
Question Choices Scores Percentage (%)
What is your gender? A) Male 20 40%
B) Female 30 60%
We have taken 50 students to answer this question and then converted the result into 100 and we got the percentage. We have got 60% female student and 42% male student. The aim of this question to ask is to see whether gender varying any difference in developing writing skill or not? We have found that everyone (male or female) face the same problem in writing, gender doesn’t vary any difference.
Student Table: 2
Question Choices Scores Percentage (%)
Which program are you studying? A) Graduation 15 30%
B) Post graduation. 35 70%
In this question the choices are graduation and post graduation. We have got 70% of students are studying in post graduation and rest 30% are studying in graduation program.
Student Table: 3
Question Choices Scores Percentage (%)
According to you how much importance is the writing skill is for student?
A) Of great importance 49
98%
B) moderately important 1
2%
C) less important 0 0%
D) Of no importance 0 0%
In this question we have found all most all the students choose option A) of great importance (98%) and only 2% student think that writing skill is moderately important.
Student Table: 4
Question Choices Scores Percentage (%)
What is the level of your confidence in writing?
A) Highly confident 13 26%
B) Moderately confident 27
54%
C) less confident 10 20%
D) Not at all confident 0 0%
The purpose of this question is to find out students confidence level. 26% students are highly confident about their writing. Most of the students i.e. 54% students are moderately confident and 10% of them are less confident.
Mustafizur rRhman:
Bill Reed says,’ if you want to write well…read, read, and then read some more. Read good writing. Read bad writing. Learn to know the difference. Not for simplicity of style: noun, verb, object; noun, verb, object. It worked for Hemingway, who often said that his ultimate goal was to create the perfect sentence. Read some Hemingway, and not just his novels, but some of his early newspaper writing. There’s never been better news and feature writing ever. When you read the works of these and other fine writers, notice the simplicity of their language and how they vary their sentence structure and length. Some sentences number two or three words; others run an entire paragraph. There are countless tips on writing well, but I leave you with this one: read first, and then write.
Andrea Michelle Jones says, “Read choose anything, but read something. Keeping a focus on the way others conform words in a sentence. Start keeping a daily calendar so you don’t forget the assignments’ due and others events that could be an issue if not reviewing your material. Write constantly, in doing this you keep your skills in writing on top shape. An exercise for the mind and vocabulary skills intact.”
Mustafizur rRhman:
In connection with writing, Byrne (1978:1) also mentions that writing requires some conscious mental effort. Although when we write we use graphic symbols, that is, combinations of letter which relate to the sound, actually writing is more than the production of graphics symbols. The symbols have to be arranged according to a certain convention, words to be arranged into sentences.
Mc Roberts (1981) explores that quality of the writing depends on the richness of source of material such as listening to people, watching good television programs, listening to the radio programs and talking to others constantly.
Emily Sinsabaugh says, “Writing can be a drag . . . especially if you don’t think you are very good at it. It’s skill, however, that you need to develop in order to be competitive in today’s society. While you’re a student take the time to write well. Take more than the required English and writing courses. I’d willing to bet you’ll find these classes to be quite valuable when you try to find and keep a job after graduation. And don’t worry if you end up having trouble in these classes. You can always enlist the help of the good folks at the Writing center. And one thing more . . . a good way to practice your writing without the stress of a grade hanging over your head, is to take part in extra-curricular activities that involve writing.”
Mustafizur rRhman:
Literature Review
Writing is on of the productive skills that a learner is expected to achieve in order to ensure his communicative competence. Writing is a visual representation of speech in writing and speaking the language learner is engaged in communicating his ideas and feelings. In the case of speaking a kind of give and take situation remain between listener and speaker. But in the case of writing message communicated a higher degree of fitness, and this skill requires real proficiency if communication has to be effective. Writing is a difficult skill for many learners, even in their mother tongue. There are several reasons for this. First, writing has to be learnt. Another difficulty is the problem of the absent audience. When we speak, we are interacting with someone and have instant feedback. When we write we can not consult with the reader. Second, it is difficult to know what information the absent reader needs to know, so it is hard to know what to write. Then there are problems of linguistic difficulties. We have to know how to put a sentence together accurately. Writing involves more than putting sentences together in language that is grammatically correct and appropriate.
Writing is a form of communication and a process of transferring ideas into product of writing; translating out thought into language. Through writing we are able to share ideas, arouse feelings, persuade and convince other people. We are able to discover and articulate ideas in ways that only writing makes possible (White and Arndt, 1991). Writing is different from speaking, because writing involves work. In this case,
Mc Roberts (1981) says: The difference between using talk and using writing to communicate is like the different between snakes and ladders and chess: their objective is essentially the same but the degree of control, thought and style is radically different (1981:5)
Mustafizur rRhman:
Abstract
English is the foremost spoken language throughout the whole world. So, it is absolutely crucial for us to know how to develop writing skills in English. Writing skill is one of the four basic skills of a language and like other skills it can be learned. So this paper focuses on the problems that Bangladeshi students go through in the respect of developing English writing skills. This paper also presents some general steps that help students to solve the problems that come up while writing.
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