Promoting Education Sustainable Development Through English Writing Skills Performance Improvement – Case Study on Students’ Perception in Undergraduate Writing Course

Abstract

Academic writing is introduced to higher education students since the first year at BINUS University. A course named English for Academic Writing focuses on the development and improvement of academic writing skills in the English language of students in Global Class. The respondents are the students of Computer Science and Information System. Data was collected through an onlinesurvey filled by the students, and interview with the lecturer. The collected data will be analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper discusses the perception of students on the improvement of academic writing skills applied in writing an abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology,andreferences. The students mentioned skills such as citing, paraphrasing, referencing, quoting, problem/topic statement writing, finding/result writing were hard to be learned. The students practiced those skills manually and using the feature in Microsoft Words. The result will provide data and information about the improvement made, so the teaching-learning activities applied could become suggestions or feedbacks for the respective class and parallel classes. Therefore, this papersupports the building of students’ capacity in English academic writing skills for sustainable development in education.