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Stephens, Lauren E.; Kim, Gyunghoon; Fogle, E'Lisha V.; Kleinbort, Tori; Duffy, Lauren N.; Powell, Gwynn M.; Olsen, Lisa K.-P.; Kakraba Coleman, Karleisha; Gremillion, J. Paul – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
The quality of undergraduate student writing is cause for concern among academics and industry professionals alike. Because writing apprehension is thought to be a contributing factor in the current deficit of undergraduate writing proficiency, the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) was administered to parks, recreation, and tourism students to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Apprehension, Writing Skills, Writing Achievement
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Leggette, Holli R.; Redwine, Tobin; Busick, Brytann – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2020
Many national reports have documented students' writing deficiencies and the need to develop rigorous writing curricula that moves the needle forward in training young professionals to write. The quasi-experimental study described herein explains the effect reflection had on journalistic writing students' media writing self-perception scores. We…
Descriptors: Reflection, Journal Writing, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
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Sivaci, Seda – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
The purpose of the present study is to find out whether the use of peer feedback activity in writing classes could reduce the writing anxiety levels of pre-service teachers of English in Turkey. In total, 26 students participated in the study lasted for 2 academic terms in 2019-2020. During the study, after each writing assignment (8 writing…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Writing Apprehension, Preservice Teachers
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D. Adam Cletzer; Keisha Avery; Laura Hasselquist – NACTA Journal, 2022
Written communication skills are often among the most important applied skills sought by employers when hiring graduates of colleges of agriculture. However, recent reports cite a gap between employers' expectations and graduates' levels of preparedness in key applied skills, among them "effective written communication." One critical…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Apprehension, Grammar
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Jawas, Umiati – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Writing anxiety is a term for a wide variety of apprehensive and pessimistic feelings about writing. The purpose of this study is to identify factors contributing to writing anxiety experienced by EFL students in writing essays and the strategies they apply to manage it. The possible factors of the anxiety were elaborated into close-ended…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Writing Apprehension, Student Attitudes, Essays
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Jiang, Dongmei – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning on writing anxiety alleviation through a pre-test/post-test assessment. 120 EFL learners from a Chinese polytechnic institute were assigned into two groups: one experimental (cooperative writing) and the other comparison (solitary writing). Results revealed that cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)