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MacArthur, Charles A.; Jennings, Amanda; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The study developed a model of linguistic constructs to predict writing quality for college basic writers and analyzed how those constructs changed following instruction. Analysis used a corpus of argumentative essays from a quasi-experimental, instructional study with 252 students (MacArthur, Philippakos, & Ianetta, 2015) that found large…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Essays, Factor Analysis
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Gaudreau, Patrick; Franche, Véronique; Gareau, Alexandre – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The 2 × 2 model of perfectionism conceptualizes perfectionism as the within-person combinations of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism to define four subtypes of perfectionism. This model posits that each subtype is distinctively associated with self-determined motivation and psychological adjustment. Results of latent moderated…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Emotional Adjustment, Self Determination
Dempsey, Michael S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Currently influential models of writing processes, such as Flower and Hayes (1980) and Hayes (1996) do not attend explicitly to metalinguistics--writers' ability to monitor and control linguistic skills. Dimensions of metalinguistic ability--metaphonology, metasyntax, metasemantics, metapragmatics, and metatext--arguably are central to the writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Metalinguistics, Correlation, Self Efficacy