An Analysis of the Pre-writing Strategies Employed by Chinese college students in the timed examination

Longfei Zhang

doi:10.30564/jiep.v4i3.3863

An Analysis of the Pre-writing Strategies Employed by Chinese college students in the timed examination

Longfei Zhang (North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power)

Article ID: 3863

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jiep.v4i3.3863

Abstract

This thesis is trying to analyze the pre-writing strategies used by Chinese college students in a timed examination. The purposes of this study is to identify the possible strategies the Chinese college students claimed they used in the pre-writing stage of the timed examination, find if differences exist between the pre-writing strategies employed by skilled writers and unskilled writers, and find which strategy best facilitate writing in a timed condition.

Keywords

Pre-writing strategies; Chinese college students; In timed examination; Skilled writers; Unskilled writers

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