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Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing

Wikis are emergent technologies which are increasingly used in writing classrooms. These web-based, authoring tools have been used in academic writing classrooms and specifically for collaborative work. This study investigated students’ perception of using wikis for collaborative writing. Four-hundr...

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Main Authors: Zailin Shah, Yusoff, Nik Aloesnita, Nik Mohd Alwi, Ainol Haryati, Ibrahim
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Published: Southeast Asian Journal 2012
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LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling my.ump.umpir.67682018-02-12T02:29:20Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6768/ Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing Zailin Shah, Yusoff Nik Aloesnita, Nik Mohd Alwi Ainol Haryati, Ibrahim LB2300 Higher Education Wikis are emergent technologies which are increasingly used in writing classrooms. These web-based, authoring tools have been used in academic writing classrooms and specifically for collaborative work. This study investigated students’ perception of using wikis for collaborative writing. Four-hundred twenty four undergraduate students enrolled in an academic writing course participated in the survey. In the course, students wrote, revised and submitted group research reports via wikis. This paper discusses two main issues, the first is to determine group participation level during group work via wikis and the second is, to identify the preferred collaborative writing mode. Findings indicate that students did not face major problems working together online. On the one hand, the students reported that wikis were useful for data storage and group work task completion. In addition, they claimed that using wikis for group work encouraged group participation. On the other hand, the students argued for the preference for face-to-face discussion during collaborative writing. Southeast Asian Journal 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6768/1/Investigating_Students_Perception_of_using_Wikis_in_Academic_Writing.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6768/4/pbmsk-2012-zailin-Investigating%20Students%20Perception.pdf Zailin Shah, Yusoff and Nik Aloesnita, Nik Mohd Alwi and Ainol Haryati, Ibrahim (2012) Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 18 (3). pp. 91-102. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/article/view/1112
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Zailin Shah, Yusoff
Nik Aloesnita, Nik Mohd Alwi
Ainol Haryati, Ibrahim
Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing
description Wikis are emergent technologies which are increasingly used in writing classrooms. These web-based, authoring tools have been used in academic writing classrooms and specifically for collaborative work. This study investigated students’ perception of using wikis for collaborative writing. Four-hundred twenty four undergraduate students enrolled in an academic writing course participated in the survey. In the course, students wrote, revised and submitted group research reports via wikis. This paper discusses two main issues, the first is to determine group participation level during group work via wikis and the second is, to identify the preferred collaborative writing mode. Findings indicate that students did not face major problems working together online. On the one hand, the students reported that wikis were useful for data storage and group work task completion. In addition, they claimed that using wikis for group work encouraged group participation. On the other hand, the students argued for the preference for face-to-face discussion during collaborative writing.
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Nik Aloesnita, Nik Mohd Alwi
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title_short Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing
title_full Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing
title_fullStr Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing
title_full_unstemmed Investigating Students' Perception of Using Wikis in Academic Writing
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publisher Southeast Asian Journal
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url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6768/1/Investigating_Students_Perception_of_using_Wikis_in_Academic_Writing.pdf
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