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Downs, Douglas; Wardle, Elizabeth – College Composition and Communication, 2007
In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourse and rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Kieft, Marleen; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Galbraith, David; van den Bergh, Huub – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: When writing a text, students are required to do several things simultaneously. They have to plan, translate and review, which involve demanding cognitive processes. In order to handle this complexity, writers need to develop a writing strategy. The two most well-defined writing strategies that have been identified, are those of a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 10, Writing Skills, Cognitive Processes