Workplace written Literacy and its effect on the curriculum
Fennick et al. (1993) identify employees poor writing skills on different writing requirements between school and work. The results of a research conducted by Sidy (1999) indicated that the participants could not relate what they did in freshman writing classes to the types of writing they have t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UKM
2008
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2261/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2261/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2261/1/page1_21.pdf |
| Summary: | Fennick et al. (1993) identify employees poor writing skills on different writing
requirements between school and work. The results of a research conducted by Sidy
(1999) indicated that the participants could not relate what they did in freshman writing
classes to the types of writing they have to do in the workplace. The objective of this
paper is to discuss workplace written literacy demands and the levels of written literacy
among applicants for a job at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Data was
collected using interviews and a written test. The findings suggest that there exists a
mismatch between written literacy demands and the levels of the applicants. Hence, there
is a need to look at the present curriculum in written literacy both at secondary and
tertiary levels with a view to incorporate workplace literacy components. |
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