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Hassani, Hossein; Kadir, Govand; Al-Salihi, Nawzad K.; Monnet, Wrya Muhammad Ali; Ali-Yahiya, Tara; Alizade, Fattah – Education Sciences, 2018
Final Year Projects (FYPs) play a significant role in undergraduate education in the computing field of study, and most of the related university departments and schools consider them an essential contribution to this study. However, issues such as whether to assign the projects individually or to a group of students, the procedures followed in…
Descriptors: Supervision, College Seniors, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects
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Chaqmaqchee, Zina Adil – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Feedback within higher education has an effective role in teaching staffs mode. The treatise on teachers' methods of feedback is represented to demonstrate how the novel feedback can help the academic staffs to provide an effective feedback for students in their assignments and written draft. The study investigates the academic staff's methods of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Feedback (Response), Higher Education
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Wallace, Robert M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
Because Dominique (or D-Mon, as he liked to be called) had drill before class, he would sometimes come in late in the author's class, his army boots silently moving across the tile as though he were trying to sneak by a sentry. The army fatigues that he wore were supposed to help him blend into a desert landscape, a tan-and-brown world of sand. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Personal Narratives, War
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Burdick, Melanie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
This article considers the emotional and psychological complexities of responding to personal narratives when the focus is war. The author teaches at a community college and she always begins her semester with a narrative assignment for the usual reasons: students write better when they write what they know; teachers should scaffold writing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, War, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives
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Thelin, William H. – College English, 2006
Students in college writing courses need to understand world issues, including the oppressive effects of the global economy. But their teachers need to give them a sense of agency and authority, rather than simply telling them what political positions to take. One example of a writing assignment that might engage as well as inform students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Interests, Ideology, Change Agents