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VanDerHeide, Jennifer; Newell, George E. – Written Communication, 2013
We propose "instructional chaining" as an analytic method for capturing and describing key instructional episodes enacted by expert writing teachers to foster the recontextualization over time of the social practices of argumentative writing through process-oriented instructional approaches. The article locates instructional chaining…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Sarsar, Nasreddine Mohamed – Online Submission, 2008
Students in UAE Model Schools exhibit poor writing skills. Samples of some of the essays they came up with bear clear evidence of the problems they have with writing in particular and place them at an increased risk for literacy failure. The data I gathered by means of questionnaires and interviews with teachers and students alike suggest that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Intervention, Process Approach (Writing)