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Hoehn, Jessica R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Writing is an integral part of the process of science. In the undergraduate physics curriculum, the most common place that students engage with scientific writing is in lab classes, typically through lab notebooks, reports, and proposals. There has not been much research on why and how we include writing in physics lab classes, and instructors may…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Content Area Writing, Physics, Undergraduate Students
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Zarei, Gholam Reza; Pourghasemian, Hossein; Jalali, Hassan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The present study attempts to give an account of how students represent writing task in an EAP course. Further, the study is intended to discover if learners' mental representation of writing would contribute to their written performance. During a 16-week term, students were instructed to practice writing as a problem solving activity. At almost…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Writing Processes