Pre-writing strategies used by students at Center for International Cooperation and Training - Electric Power University = Các chiến lược sinh viên trung tâm đào tạo và hợp tác quốc tế, trường Đại Học Điện Lực sử dụng trong giai đoạn trước khi viết. M.A T

• Main Author: Mai, Thị Thủy, 1989-
• Other Authors: Hoàng, Văn Vân, 1955-
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: University of Languages and International Studies 2017
• Subjects: Ngôn ngữ; Tiếng Anh; Kỹ năng viết
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/39864
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

It goes without saying that a good beginning is half the battle. Accordingly, pre-writing strategies are considered an essential tool for students, especially third-year students at Electric Power University who have not been familiar with academic writing. In order to carry out this research project, 50 students were involved in this study to bring various and critical viewpoints about the main aspect of pre-writing skill illustrated by the term “strategies”. Using two research methods including quantitative and qualitative and two instruments including questionnaire and semi-structured interview, the study attempts to answer to the question: “What strategies are used by students at the Center for International Cooperation and Training, Electric Power University, at the pre-writing stage?” The results shared that the strategies students at Center for International Cooperation and Training, Electric Power University use at thepre-writing stage include brainstorming, outlining, talking it out,categorizing and clustering. Meanwhile, they rarely or never use journaling, questions-asking, branching and free-writing. It is also found that they are not really aware of the importance of these pre-writing strategies. This explains partly why their writing is of poor quality. The study‟s results suggested that teachers should be more flexible to convert such useful strategies into activities in class to make sure students can understand pre-writing strategies and apply them to writing skill effectively.