Volume 4 : Issues 3 & 4, July - December (2017)

THE WRITING ATTITUDE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Writing attitude plays an important role in forming our view towards writing skill. Writing attitude is highly effective on improving or hindering writing achievement. Students with positive attitudes performed significantly better than those with negative attitudes on writing task. Writing attitude affects writing quality. Thus, the main objective of this study was to measure writing attitude of higher education students with reference to their gender, social class, category, and area of residence, discipline of the study, parental educational status and known languages. Survey method was used in this study. All the post graduate level students of Gujarat Vidyapith were the population of the study. 346 students were selected by random cluster method. Four point Likert type Dhadhodara & Joshi (2017) writing attitude scale was applied.The findings revealed that only 15.89 % students had positive attitude towards writing. There was no significant difference in writing attitude in the context of students’ gender, social class category, discipline of the study, parental educational status and languages known. There was significant difference in writing attitude in the context of students’area of residence.

Measurement, Higher Education, Writing attitude, Comparison

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