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It highlights the challenges such as plagiarism, lexicology, grammar, lack of understanding that a student can meet during the academic year and tries to give some tips to get rid of these barriers. |  |  |  |\n| Keywords: |  | Academic writing, Academic misunderstanding of a topic | literacy, | Challenges, |\n\nIntroduction  \nAcademic writing is a tool of communication that conveys acquired knowledge in a specific field of study. Writing academically will help students analyze, convey understanding, think critically and focus on technique and style. So academic writing plays an important role informing the student’s research and studies. The features of academic writing are:  \n• Complexity  \n• Formality  \n• Precision  \n• Objectivity  \n• Explicitness  \n• Accuracy  \n• Responsibility  \nFirstly, written language is relatively more complex than spoken language as it should be formal. In academic writing, facts and figures are given precisely. Because of these features many students in the higher education may face particular difficulties in writing, like lexical variety, grammar or inappropriate text structure.  \nThe problem with words is among the biggest ones not only a first-year, but also anyother student may encounter. Proper linking words and phrases is actually not that simple for many people especially in academic research writing, to say nothing of inexperienced people who have to write essays, reports, labs, etc. It’s not a secret that errors in grammar and punctuation are one of the main reasons why students lose their marks in academic papers. While some students find it hard to get their thoughts and ideas down on paper, others just don’t know how to properly incorporate quotations into sentences. Trying to do the assignment, they simply borrow passages from articles, books and even websites without identifying them; hence the problem of plagiarism. Whether it comes to a thesis, essay or article – each of them has a certain structure. Typically, they all are based on three main components: introduction, main body and conclusion. You may be surprised, but many students have problems with structuring their works for a variety of reasons, the main of which is the inability to draw up  \nevery single part considering the singularity of all other.  \nMaterials and Methods  \nThese academic problems are quite common among nowadays’ students. So what is the way out? Ernest A. Pineteh did the research in this field and tried to find what are the challenges that students are facing and why are those students challenged by academic writing. To understand the academic writing challenges of undergraduate students at CPUT, the researcher used qualitative research methods to collect empirical data from students and lecturers. The researcher concludes that long ago majority of students who entered universities were expected to be intellectually and emotionally prepared for higher education (Meyer, 2012; Smith, 2012 & Leibowitz, 2004) . Today, universities have transformed from elite to mass institutions, catering for diverse student bodies. Increasing access to higher education means universities have to deal with students with attitudes and skills that are not suitable for higher education. Because these students enter higher education with weak literacy skills, they struggle to cope with institutional literacy practices and disciplinary discourses including academic writing. [1]  \nAnother researcher Burris-Melville, tried to find the answer for these questions and recommended that the university focus on the integration of writing into teaching pedagogies through the development and implementation of a writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC)","cbCaiiHTxS1L5GBS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiHTxS1L5GBS","pdf",226126,"English","# Introduction\n# Materials and Methods\n## Research approach and findings\n# The knowledge of academic writing\n# Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"What difficulties do undergraduate students face in academic writing?\",\"answer\":\"Students struggle with lexicology, grammar, grammar and punctuation errors, improper text structure, and challenges incorporating quotations. Plagiarism also emerges when passages are borrowed without proper identification.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the research explain why these challenges occur?\",\"answer\":\"Universities have shifted from elite to mass education, so students enter with weaker literacy skills. This makes it harder to cope with institutional literacy practices and disciplinary expectations, including academic writing.\"},{\"question\":\"What do survey results indicate about students’ knowledge and challenges?\",\"answer\":\"A portion of participants (as shown in the figure) report little knowledge of academic writing, while others believe they know despite difficulties. Most answers relate to lexicology, including limited vocabulary, trouble finding academic words, and time-management issues during writing.\"}]","The Academic Writing Challenges of Undergraduate Students - Tips to Overcome Barriers | PDF"]