From Readiness to Research: Exploring Business Students’ Research Writing Competence
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Academic writing, Business students, Confidence, Mixed methods, Research writing, Self-regulated learning, Technical competenceAbstract
This study assessed the research writing readiness of third-year business students at Tangub City Global College during Academic Year 2025–2026. It examined readiness in terms of technical aspects of research writing, the ability to write the major parts of a research paper, and students’ sentiments toward research writing. Anchored on Self-Regulated Learning Theory, the study employed a convergent mixed methods design. Quantitative data were obtained from 232 respondents selected through stratified random sampling from a population of 580 third-year business students, while qualitative data were gathered from 25 purposively selected participants through semi-structured interviews. Frequency count, percentage, and weighted mean were used for the quantitative data, while thematic analysis was applied to the qualitative responses. The quantitative findings showed a high level of perceived readiness across all assessed components, with a grand mean of 3.11 interpreted as “Agree.” Results and Discussion obtained the highest mean of 3.15, whereas Technical Aspects in Research Writing obtained the lowest mean of 3.01. Qualitative findings showed that students experienced research writing as challenging yet rewarding, difficult and stressful, and motivating and confidence-building. Common difficulties included finding reliable sources, organizing ideas, managing time, coping with academic pressure, and collaborating with group members. The findings indicate that students possess foundational perceived readiness but require continued support in technical writing, literature synthesis, critical analysis, source evaluation, and evidence-based academic communication. A proposed enhancement program emphasizes faculty-led writing laboratories, source-evaluation and citation workshops, literature-matrix templates, guided methodology and discussion clinics, and performance-based draft feedback to help translate....
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