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Xiaonan Han; Xin Lin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study aimed to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the Mathematics Writing (MW) of Chinese students. We conducted a comparison between MW and general writing on organizational features. The analysis was based on a sample of 138 sixth-grade students. Our findings revealed: (a) students demonstrated significantly higher performance in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Writing (Composition), Content Area Writing
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Tessa L. Arsenault; Sarah R. Powell; Sarah G. King – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
In the last decade, researchers have focused more on how to provide instructional supports for mathematics writing (Powell et al., 2017). In this synthesis, we examined 22 studies about mathematics writing to determine the overall mathematics-writing and mathematics outcomes of mathematics-writing instruction, the mathematics-writing and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Content Area Writing, Synthesis, Elementary School Mathematics
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Chen, Ying-Chih; Terada, Takeshi; Aguirre-Mendez, Claudia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Non-science majors often lack motivation to take science courses required for their graduation, because these courses are usually taught in a lecture format and are disconnected from their everyday life and needs related to future careers. This two-phase action research, utilizing argumentative writing (AW) supported with online simulation, was…
Descriptors: Science Education, Nonmajors, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
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Johan van Driel; Jannet van Driel; Carla van Boxtel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Historians often present their interpretation of the past in written accounts. In order to gain deeper knowledge of the discipline of history, students must learn how to read and write historical accounts. In this experimental pretest--posttest study, we investigated the impact of a domain-specific reading instruction followed by domain-specific…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Writing Instruction, History Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Gillespie Rouse, Amy; Kiuhara, Sharlene A.; Kara, Yusuf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We contacted a random sample of 900 elementary teachers (grades K-5) in the United States to inquire about their use of writing to support students' learning of classroom content or concepts. Characteristics (i.e., grade level, public v. private school, school locale, school enrollment) of the 150 teachers who responded to our survey were not…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, National Surveys, Teacher Surveys
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Collins, Alyson A.; Ciullo, Stephen; Graham, Steve; Sigafoos, Lisa L.; Guerra, Sara; David, Marie; Judd, Laura – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the effectiveness of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) to improve students' ability to write expository essays after reading social studies text. Third-grade general education teachers (N = 14) were randomly assigned by clusters to SRSD or a business as usual control condition. One hundred and eighty consented students…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Essays, Social Studies, Elementary School Students