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Nancy Mack – Composition Forum, 2023
The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Disadvantaged, Culturally Relevant Education, Personal Narratives
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Li, Yongyan; Hu, Guangwei – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Teachers' instructional practices surrounding written assignments have been little researched, despite writing remaining the primary means of assessment in higher education, including postgraduate professional development programmes. In this paper, we report a study that explored what a sample of lecturers in a Master of Education programme at an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Leon, Kendall; Pinkert, Laurie A.; Trauth Taylor, Kathryn – Composition Studies, 2017
In this article, we detail our findings from a case study of three instructors as they newly implemented service-learning pedagogies into their first year writing classes. Drawing on the instructors' perspectives as part of a larger programmatic assessment, we demonstrate that a service-learning curriculum can broadly foster learning outcomes for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Service Learning, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Tardy, Christine M.; Buck, Rachel Hall; Pawlowski, Madelyn; Slinkard, Jennifer R. – Composition Forum, 2018
Genre has emerged as a central concept in writing studies, with numerous scholars advocating for its prominent role in writing instruction. Despite this interest in genre, however, research has not explored teachers' understanding of the concept, which is critical to how they address genre in their classrooms. This study traces the evolving…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Reflection, Focus Groups
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Campbell, Lilly – Written Communication, 2017
Drawing on fieldwork, this article examines nursing students' design and use of a patient health record during clinical simulations, where small teams of students provide nursing care for a robotic patient. The student-designed patient health record provides a compelling example of how simulation genres can both authentically coordinate action…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Simulation, Patients, Records (Forms)
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Perun, Stefan Austin – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
This article explores the learning experiences of two students in the same college-level English course at Urban Serving Community College (USCC) (pseudonym). The objective was to understand how one student met with success and the other failure despite both successfully completing their developmental English course the semester prior. I observed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College English, Learning Experience
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Campbell, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2016
In addition to teaching research and writing skills, First-Year Composition classes are well situated to help students develop strategies for managing stress and increasing well-being. I describe an assignment sequence in which students interview others from three generations about topics related to happiness and wellbeing, analyze shared…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
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Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A.; Halim, Audrey S.; Chambers, Timothy G.; Moon, Alena; Goldman, R. S.; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
We conducted a study to examine how a writing-to-learn assignment influenced student learning of polymer behavior. In particular, we examined the role of specific content and a rhetorical framework as well as a structured writing process including peer review and revision. The student-generated writing was analyzed via a content-directed rubric.…
Descriptors: Plastics, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Interviews
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Carless, David; Zhou, Jiming – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
This paper is focused on an innovation which involved students being assessed on short written responses to an issue to be addressed in the following classroom session. The innovation was evaluated through a student survey, individual and focus-group interviews with participants, and the analysis of a critical friend. Positive findings included…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Educational Innovation, Student Surveys
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Hurtt, Barbekka; Bryant, Jennifer – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
We describe changes in an undergraduate anatomy and physiology (A&P) curriculum designed to address educational goals at a private, comprehensive university. Educational goals included making course material more relevant to students' future career interests, exposing students to professionals in their careers of interest, and incorporating…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Undergraduate Students, Student Interests, Learner Engagement
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Liu, Gi-Zen; Lu, Hui-Ching; Lin, Vivien; Hsu, Wei-Chen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
With the increased use of digital materials, undergraduate writers in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts have become more susceptible to plagiarism. In this study, the researchers designed a blended English writing course with an online writing tutorial system entitled "DWright." The study examined the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Prevention, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Howard, Sarah K.; Khosronejad, Maryam; Calvo, Rafael A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
To be fully prepared for the professional workplace, Engineering students need to be able to effectively communicate. However, there has been a growing concern in the field about students' preparedness for this aspect of their future work. It is argued that online writing tools, to engage numbers of students in the writing process, can support…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Content Area Writing
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Lei, Zhu – English Language Teaching, 2017
The study investigates the incorporation and effectiveness of student written feedback and their attitudes towards peer feedback in writing class. Taking a qualitative case study approach, this study followes closely a class of thirty-two English juniors over one semester. Data sources include composition drafts, student written feedback and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Moskovitz, Cary – Advances in Engineering Education, 2017
This paper reports on a 3-year study utilizing a novel approach to providing students in an introductory engineering course with feedback on drafts of course writing projects. In the Volunteer Expert Reader (VER) approach, students are matched with university alumni or employees who have the background to give feedback from the perspective of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Introductory Courses, Feedback (Response)
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Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal; Helstad, Kristin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Teaching in higher education encompasses more than merely helping students develop knowledge and skills. It entails engaging students in their own formation as persons, professionals and citizens. From this perspective, this article investigates how approaches to teaching academic writing contribute to formation. By analysing a case from initial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Development, Academic Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
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