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Yongyan Li – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
Master-level postgraduate professional development (PPD) programs have grown rapidly in many parts of the world. Being able to complete written assignments successfully is a significant concern for students pursuing PPD studies. Yet the nature of written assignments in such programs has been under-researched. This paper reports a study conducted…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Masters Programs, Graduate Study, Professional Development
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Abigail Orenstein Ash – Composition Forum, 2024
This essay proposes a pedagogical approach to writing instruction in universities facing familiar institutional goals and barriers alongside the heightened emotional complexities of students post-pandemic. Students at these universities often pursue vocational paths, yet since spring 2020, their interpersonal and cultural challenges have deepened,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), College Students
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Rebecca L. Matz; Mark Mills; Holly A. Derry; Benjamin T. Hayward; Caitlin Hayward – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Mastery-based assignments typically provide students with multiple opportunities to improve their performance, but getting students to take advantage of these opportunities is difficult. We report on the implementation of a two-part series of nudges designed to improve students' engagement with and performance on mastery-based assignments in…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Scores, Assignments, Prompting
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Brooks, Benjamin – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
We are living through a very difficult moment in human history where we are having to make almost daily decisions about our health, occupations, environment, economics, and democracy, while being bombarded with disinformation, misinformation, and "alternative facts" relative to those decisions. A highly developed information literacy…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Capacity Building, Undergraduate Students
Kimberly Becker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research on disciplinary variation in graduate student writing (GSW) has typically focused on theses and dissertations. Less attention has been paid to coursework assignments (e.g., essays, recounts, exercises, etc.), which are the pre-cursors to final capstone projects. Coursework papers are prioritized by both students and professors because…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Academic Language
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Tarchi, Christian – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
People need to critically comprehend information across multiple sources that express contradictory viewpoints to make decisions on relevant everyday-life issues and participate in the democratic discourse. However, the processing of multiple documents depends on readers' prior beliefs. The present study investigated the moderating effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Prompting, Reading Comprehension
Emily Palese – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In university-level composition courses, assignment prompts are fundamental in shaping students' understanding of major writing projects. Aiming to be instructive and descriptive while also clear and concise, instructors use a series of moves (Swales, 1990) and modals in writing assignment prompts to express requirements, suggestions, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Cues, Prompting
American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2024
Humanity is building exciting new partnerships with technology in the artificial intelligence age. Careers and work are rapidly being transformed and many of the jobs of tomorrow have not yet been invented. Students should make it their goal to become skilled in using AI comfortably, effectively, safely and ethically. Learn AI's capabilities and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence
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Tolman, Elizabeth – Communication Teacher, 2022
Courses: Introduction to Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Theory, and Health Communication across face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats. Objectives: Students will demonstrate an understanding of interpersonal communication concepts and theories by (1) identifying artifacts that illustrate the unique features of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Learning Activities, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study examines links between essay quality and text elaboration and text cohesion. For this study, 35 students wrote two essays (on two different prompts) and for each, were given 15 minutes to elaborate on their original text. An expert in discourse comprehension then modified the original and elaborated essays to increase cohesion,…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills, Connected Discourse
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Nicholas, Erika L. – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2017
This piece focuses on increasing writing instruction for secondary English teacher candidates in the form of integrating reading and writing. Often, teacher candidates are not sufficiently prepared in university coursework to teach writing and are left to rely on formulaic writing that merely prepares their students for the end-of-year tests.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Davis, C. Amelia; Lester, Jessica N. – Qualitative Research in Education, 2016
While many research methods courses challenge students to make sense of their own researcher identities as they relate to research paradigms and perspectives, there is a lack of research that examines how students actually go about constructing these identities, particularly at the level of discourse. In this study, we attended to graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Methods Courses, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Menz, Petra; Xin, Cindy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
Metacognition directly contributes to learning, performance, and beliefs about the self as a learner. This paper describes the rationale, implementation, and assessment of a weekly online reflection activity based on instructor prompts designed for post-secondary students who aspire to be elementary school teachers. Our study defines four…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Content Area Writing, Mathematics Education, Reflection
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Latulippe, Joe; Latulippe, Christine – PRIMUS, 2014
As an often recommended but under-utilized pedagogical strategy, writing in mathematics has many benefits for students. However, creating and grading worthwhile writing projects can be more time-consuming than utilizing more traditional forms of assessment. This paper provides a concrete example of a writing project prompt, questions, directions,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Content Area Writing
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Whiting, Erin Feinauer; Cutri, Ramona Maile – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
This qualitative study systematically documents pre-service teachers' responses to a writing prompt asking them to name a personal "unearned" privilege on an end-of-term final assessment. Findings suggest that typical White/European heritage pre-service teachers can name privileges that have advantaged their own lives, even after one…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Multicultural Education, Writing Assignments
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