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Motivation, Barriers, and Support
JOANNA O. PALISZKIEWICZ
Introduction
e ability to comprehend and communicate one’s ideas in a written
text is critical in academic life. Writing is a recursive process involving
both cognitive and metacognitive skills (Larkin, 2009). Sound writ-
ing is critical for academic and vocational achievement (Graham and
Perin, 2007). Writing consists of lower- order skills such as transcrip-
tion and spelling, and higher- order skills such as ideation. Ideation
includes complex, high- level cognitive processes such as planning,
translating, and reviewing (Hayes and Flower, 1980; Scardamalia and
Bereiter, 1986).
Murray (2002) suggests that most academics have not received any
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