Banda, FelixMohamed, Hashim IssaDept. of Linguistics, Language and CommunicationFaculty of Arts2013-06-182024-03-272007/04/132007/04/132013-06-182024-03-272006https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9977Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis thesis was a critical analysis of students academic second language writing at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Student writing in English as a second language in higher education has excited much interest in the English as a Second Language writing research and discussion in Tanzania. The interest was motivated by frequent criticisms from examiners regarding students literacy performance in the English as a Second Language writing in the post primary and higher education where the language of instruction is English as is configured in the Tanzanian language policy.enEnglish languageRhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher)Foreign speakersTextbooks for foreign speakersThesisUniversity of the Western Cape