Investigation into and analysis of the current situation of academic english writing of hlp postgraduates: A case study from a chinese university

Abstract

As many scholars realized the significance and urgency of academic English writing research in English-as-foreign-language countries, numerous studies have been conducted on the topic. To date, however, little focused exclusively on multidisciplinary empirical research on High-level Project (HLP) postgraduates’ academic English writing in China. The present study intends to explore the general tendency of HLP students’ academic English writing. It first investigates the difficulties and writing habits of fifty-one HLP postgraduates in the English training center of a “Project-985”1 university in China through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, and then discusses some problems of the present academic English writing classroom and academic English writing skills that need to be improved promptly.