Wissenschaftliche Textkompetenz

German universities presume students are able to produce academic texts. At the same time, it is an everyday experience for students to have major problems when it comes to academic writing. The study demonstrates that a language acquisition problem lies at the heart of these difficulties, the problem of acquiring academic textual competence. A multi-stage model of development is presented, based on the analysis of comprehensive corpora of student essays and specialist articles written by experts.