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Kimberly A. Wolbers; Hannah M. Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Expressive Language, Writing Processes, Language Skills
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Vasilopoulos, Eugenia – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
This study explores how Deleuzian concepts of assemblage, affect, and rhizome can inform, and transform, our understanding of how technology shapes second language academic writing. More specifically, it focuses on the practice of L2 academic writing as novice writers compose a source-based research paper in an English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Research Papers (Students)
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Michaud, Michael – Composition Forum, 2019
In this interview Dr. Bruce Ballenger and I discuss his career, his many textbooks on writing, his recent collaboration on an extensive study of the revision processes of advanced writers, and the challenges of balancing a career with a foot in multiple academic fields (i.e. composition and rhetoric and creative writing). Dr. Ballenger retired…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Revision (Written Composition)
Rebecca D. Ottman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
"Theorizing Eloquence as a Means-Driven Process of Recursive Invention" examines the rhetorical nature of eloquence and the value of reimagining the term in rhetorical theory. Historically, eloquence has been used as a mechanism of gatekeeping in the academy that prevents underrepresented individuals and perspectives to enter. I argue…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Expressive Language, Language Fluency
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Troia, Gary A.; Shen, Mei; Brandon, Diana L. – Written Communication, 2019
This study examined multiple measures of written expression as predictors of narrative writing performance for 362 students in grades 4 through 6. Each student wrote a fictional narrative in response to a title prompt that was evaluated using a levels of language framework targeting productivity, accuracy, and complexity at the word, sentence, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Writing (Composition), Expressive Language
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Alwi, Nik Aloesnita Nik Mohd; Adams, Rebecca; Newton, Jonathan – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
Research has shown that task-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) can foster attention to linguistic form in ways that may promote language learning (c.f., Blake, 2000; Smith, 2003, 2005). However, relatively little research has investigated how differences in the way that tasks are used in CMC settings influence learning opportunities…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Expressive Language
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Slomp, David Hendrik; Graves, Roger; Broad, Bob – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Over three days, 180 junior and senior high school English teachers, postsecondary (university and college) writing instructors, workplace (corporate and small business) writing instructors, and government officials who are responsible for portfolios related to workforce training and literacy met to understand from a broad systems-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
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Van Woerkum, C. M. J. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2007
The aim of this article is to show that a better awareness of the relationship between written and spoken communication can help the writer to improve his/her effectiveness. The focus will be on written texts that precede (formal and informal) discussions. The analysis will start with a description of the differences between orality and literacy.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Literacy, Creativity, Writing Instruction