La rédaction à l'université constitue une tâche complexe car les scripteur-étudiants ont à gérer, non seulement, leurs idées mais aussi les moyens linguistiques servant à les exprimer. Le travail devient plus difficile lorsqu'on rédige dans une langue étrangère. Une des difficultés majeures des étudiants vietnamiens francophones dans leur rédaction universitaire en français est d'enchaîner leurs idées pour produire des séquences cohérentes et abouties. La recherche menée dans le cadre de cette thèse aborde l'utilisation des connecteurs argumentatifs dans les écrits universitaires des étudiants vietnamiens en vue d'une perspective didactique. Les problèmes de cet emploi (fréquences, erreurs…) sont montrés à travers les analyses quantitatives et qualitatives des connecteurs argumentatifs mobilisés dans les écrits des étudiants de géographie. L'accent est particulièrement mis sur l'analyse des utilisations erronées réparties selon une classification des erreurs et anomalies de ces termes de liaison. Les propositions didactiques issues des résultats obtenus servent à améliorer l'enseignement de ces articulateurs et peuvent être élargies à tous les publics d'étudiants vietnamiens. Le développement d'un enseignement sur la diversité des connecteurs argumentatifs tant, au niveau de la forme, qu'au niveau du sens, des notions de cohésion textuelle et de cohérence argumentative (acte d'argumenter, opération discursive, séquence argumentative) est l'enjeu de cette étude sur le terrain. / Writing at university is a complex task because the writer-students have to manage not only their ideas but also the linguistic means that are used to express them. The work becomes more difficult when the writing is in a foreign language. A major difficulty of vietnamese students in their academic writing in French is to link their ideas to produce consistent and accomplished sequences. The research conducted in this thesis concerns the use of connectors in argumentative academic writing of Vietnamese students for a didactic perspective. The problems of this use (frequency, errors ...) are shown through quantitative and qualitative analysis of argumentative connectors which are utilized in writings of Geography students. The emphasis is on the analysis of erroneous uses distributed according to a classification of errors and anomalies of these linking terms. From the obtained results, we propose some didactic improvements that are used for teaching of these articulators and can be extended to any vietnamese students public. The development of a teaching, based on the diversity of argumentative connectors, both in the form and at the level of meaning, of notions of textual argumentative cohesion and coherence (act of arguing, operation discursive, argumentative sequence) is the issue of this research on the field.

Graduation date: 2006 / Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors. The tool was piloted in 23 WI sections at Oregon State University during winter term 2004. Feedback obtained through an end-of-term writing self-evaluation showed that students who completed the start-of-term questionnaire tended to take the effort seriously, fill out the questionnaire completely, and use the tool for its intended purposes of reflective self-assessment and goal-setting. Students saw the tool as something that could help them with their writing, and study results suggest that its benefits may have been reinforced by students’ end-of-course review of their STQ responses. Feedback from participating instructors indicated that the tool helped with their teaching as well as their students’ learning, and most instructors planned to continue using the STQ beyond the pilot study. Study results also suggest that the questionnaire can serve as a program-level research and assessment tool, providing WI program administrators and policy-makers with new insights on students’ writing needs and goals. Campus-wide use of the STQ may lead to WI program enhancements, generate new ideas for WI instructor training, and support department, college, and institutional writing-curriculum development efforts.