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their students work should frequently be done.
On academic writing, postgraduate student must
take a serious concern in improving their writing
skills especially during post graduate studies. Stud-
ies proven that practicing are the most effective ways
in acquiring and polishing the writing skill. The
individual student without any other options should
keep themselves writing if they want to improve
their English writing skill. Students' ability on this
matter could not be achieved without a proper writ-
ing guidance from the program lecturers through
class assignments, essay tests and examinations.
As a conclusion, the above highlighted issues
could not be resolved without a direct involvement
of the faculty as a whole. Having clear insight on this
issue faculty therefore should take a proactive action
by providing a necessary support to the students. The
writing skills program should frequently be organized.
Supervising program particularly for a new supervi-
sor need continually be done and most importantly
colloquium in every stage of student thesis should be
organized by post graduate department.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This research was funded by the Ministry of Higher
Education, Malaysia through Universiti Teknologi
MARA under RIF grant: 600-RMI/DANA 5/3/
RIF (599/2012).

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