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This research investigated the extend of English Language Teaching students andTurkish Language Teaching students’ use of the structural features of academicwriting in their academic writing. First of all, the structure of academic writing washandled in the paper. Information about thesis statement, topic sentences includingthe topic of the paragraphs, the structure of introductory paragraph, the structureof concluding paragraph, and coherence-cohesion all which provide the structureof academic writing were given. 43 participants consisting the students fromEnglish Teaching students (20) and Turkish Teaching students (23) took part in thestudy. The academic writings written by those students were evaluated in terms oftheir structural features. According to the results of the evaluation, it can be statedthat the success rate of both groups was not satisfying even though the rate ofapplying the structural features of academic writing by English Teaching studentswas more than Turkish Teaching students

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