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Rationales
Importance of thesis
fulfilling the requirement of the master or
doctoral degree programs
indicating their ability to understand the specific
topic of their selected field in depth. (Yale, 1975)
suggesting the new ideas in the specific fields
(Oliver, 2004).
Problems in writing thesis
1. Planning
1.1 Global planning Detailed planning of overall organization
1.2 Thematic planning Less detailed planning of overall organization
1.3 Local planning Planning what to write next
1.4 Organizing Organizing the generated ideas
1.5 Conclusion planning Planning of the conclusion
writing
strategies 2. Retrieving
2.1 Plan retrieving
2.2 Information retrieving
Retrieving the already constructed plan
Retrieving appropriate information from long-term memory
7. Evaluating
7.1 L2 proficiency evaluation Evaluating one's own L2 proficiency
7.2 Local text evaluation Evaluating part of the generated text
7.3 General text evaluation Evaluating the generated text in general
8. Others
8.1 Resting Resting
8.2 Questioning Asking the researcher a question
8.3 (3) Impossible to categorize Impossible to categorize
Mu (2005) proposed A Taxonomy of ESL Writing
Strategies based on five theories.
Theory Definition of the strategies
1. Contrastive Rhetoric Theory Organizing and presenting their ideas with the
appropriate writing styles to native writers
2. Metacognitive Theory Using the mental process consciously to control
their writing processes.
3. Cognitive Theory Using mental process consciously to manage
information or knowledge and to structure writing
processes.