Conceptions of academic writing in medical students
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https://doi.org/10.33010/ie_rie_rediech.v11i0.855Keywords:
student’s conceptions, academic writing, university studentsAbstract
This exploratory study aimed to identify the type of academic writing conceptions of medical students in their epistemic and reproductive dimensions and to analyze the relationship between both dimensions and the variables gender, age, semester and academic performance. A total of 359 medical students completed the “Conceptions on academic writing survey”. Results show a high level of epistemic conceptions related to all the variables. Women indicated greater agreement with epistemic conceptions than men and no significant differences were observed regarding reproductive conceptions. Moreover, no significant differences were found between the variables age and semester. Students with the highest academic average showed a higher average level of reproductive beliefs and no significant differences were found regarding epistemic beliefs.
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