2023 Volume 2023 Issue 33 Pages 63-68
In order for students to be able to write academic texts, it is necessary for them to understand the framework that forms the basis of the entire text, the so-called introduction, main thesis, and conclusion, which are the components that should be written within the text structure.
In this study, we focused on these components, clarified the components that should be written in a thesis, and clarified how many of the necessary components are present in the entire thesis written by first-year students, as well as the characteristics and problems in the structure of the thesis by quantifying the content of the writing.
The analysis of the overall sentence structure of the three essays revealed that, although the introduction, "Problem Statement," and conclusion became clearer each time the essays were written, the main thesis, "Objective Interpretation and Discussion of Data," and "Presentation of Own Opinion," remained problematic.
These challenges are also linked to the decline in reading comprehension in OECD's PISA 2018, and we should ponder the construction of lesson designs to acquire reading literacy to overcome the challenges.
