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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Unit for Academic Literacy) by Supervisor "Weideman, Albert, 1948-"
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Van der Wal, Rachel Jacoba
(University of Pretoria, 2006-08-19)
The current movement towards multilingualism and multiculturalism in South Africa has placed language at the centre of all educational activity. With the implementation of the outcomes-based Curriculum 2005, the emphasis ...
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Carstens, Adelia
(University of Pretoria, 2009)
The main purpose of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approaches in teaching academic writing. The study was motivated by the researcher's perceptions about university students' difficulty ...
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Butler, Herman Gustav
(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-11)
Academic writing is generally regarded as the most important communication medium through which people in the tertiary academic context choose to communicate their ideas. It is also well known that it is sometimes an arduous ...