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Pervaiz Yaseeni; Fahim Rahimi; Fareed Sahil – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Academic writing is a salient skill for medical students all over the world. Academic writing starts with composing effective paragraphs, laying the foundation for students' advancement in writing during college. This study investigated common mistakes in English paragraph writing committed by the first-year medical students of the Medicine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Paragraph Composition, Scores
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He, Yuemin; Gaiser, Catherine Megliola – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
The five-paragraph essay is highly controversial, and yet it has also been a useful format for composition. In this essay we explain why, despite its limits, students need to go along with the format to make what use and get what advantage of it. We then demonstrate that valuing the philosophical, historical, cultural, and educational backgrounds…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Culturally Relevant Education, Asian American Students
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Patarapongsanti, Ampika; Thongsan, Nuchsara C.; Sukrutrit, Praweerata; Para, Chamnan; Saphanuchart, Nawarat – English Language Teaching, 2022
Effective written communication is not only a crucial skill for academic achievement but also for business context as it could lead to individual professional career success and profitable accomplishment. To achieve these goals requires concise and correct communication. This study, therefore, aims to explore the most frequently-made errors by 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Caviglia-Harris, Jill – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
Economists largely agree that writing is fundamental to understanding and communicating economics and can serve as an effective way to teach students to "think like economists." However, only a small percentage of programs include writing-intensive courses, a major research paper, or a senior thesis, and even fewer devote class time to…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
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Travis, Karen M.; St. Clair, Priscilla Cooke – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
Many undergraduate research capstones require research papers that include a literature review. This study assessed whether modifications made to teaching of a literature review resulted in significant changes to quantified measures of assessment. Literature reviews in the final economics capstone research papers of 212 students from the 2005-2016…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Literature Reviews, Capstone Experiences
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Toba, Rostanti; Noor, Widya Noviana; Sanu, La Ode – Dinamika Ilmu, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students' writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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Park, Y.; Ambrose, G.; Coleman, M. B.; Moore, T. C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an intervention in which teacher-led instruction was combined with computerized writing software to improve paragraph writing for three middle school students with intellectual disability. A multiple probe across participants design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students, Intellectual Disability