A study of the systemic functional revisions in EFL academic writing

الملخص EN

This study approaches the dynamic systemic functional description of written academic texts through a rigorous endeavour into revisions produced by EFL poor and good student writers.

To this end, relying on a questionnaire, this study makes use of students’ own evaluation of their writing in order to understand how poor and good writers functionally revise the draft(s) of their essays.

By understanding how these writers revise text in light of academic expectations, this study adds to the already existing descriptions of EFL writers’ revision behaviour.

The results of this study may help in designing activities following functional basis so as to help poor writers become better writer