Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Source
| Across the Disciplines | 1 |
| Alberta Journal of… | 1 |
| Grantee Submission | 1 |
| International Journal of… | 1 |
| Reading and Writing: An… | 1 |
| Science Scope | 1 |
Author
| Qin, Wenjuan | 2 |
| Uccelli, Paola | 2 |
| Broemmel, Amy | 1 |
| Cole, Merryn | 1 |
| Ehrhardt, Jacqueline S. | 1 |
| Klein, Perry D. | 1 |
| McClellan, Michael | 1 |
| Myelle-Watson, Dawn | 1 |
| Peters, Brad | 1 |
| Spears, Debora | 1 |
| Turner, Thomas | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
| Middle Schools | 6 |
| Junior High Schools | 5 |
| Secondary Education | 5 |
| Elementary Education | 4 |
| Grade 6 | 1 |
| Grade 7 | 1 |
| Grade 8 | 1 |
| Grade 9 | 1 |
| High Schools | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Illinois | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkQin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Download full textQin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Grantee Submission, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Klein, Perry D.; Ehrhardt, Jacqueline S. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Argumentation can contribute significantly to content area learning. Recent research has raised questions about the effects of discussion (deliberation) goals versus persuasion (disputation) goals on reasoning and learning. This is the first study to compare the effects of these writing goals on individual writing to learn. Grade 7 and 8 students…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Discussion, Student Educational Objectives, Abstract Reasoning
Cole, Merryn; Wilhelm, Jennifer; Yang, Hongwei – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Relationships between sixth grade students' moon journaling and students' spatial-scientific reasoning after implementation of an Earth/Space unit were examined. Teachers used the project-based Realistic Explorations in Astronomical Learning curriculum. We used a regression model to analyze the relationship between the students' Lunar Phases…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Astronomy, Science Education, Spatial Ability
McClellan, Michael; Myelle-Watson, Dawn; Peters, Brad; Spears, Debora; Wellen, David – Across the Disciplines, 2012
To teach science writing effectively, scholars encourage combining writing to learn with applications of the science writing heuristic. How teachers learn to do so remains under-examined. This essay follows a cohort of ninth-grade science teachers who collaborated in a project to develop, test, and revise such a combination of writing prompts for…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Education, Grade 9, Science Teachers
Turner, Thomas; Broemmel, Amy – Science Scope, 2006
Any science teacher who wants his or her students to be engaged in real science is going to engage them in real science writing. Writing in science should begin with clear, imaginative writing purposes and stimuli that are then scaffolded in such a way that students are able to find an organizational structure for their writing. Writing fluency is…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Writing Strategies, Writing Assignments, Proposal Writing
