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Shi, Ling; Dong, Yanning – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study examines 143 graduate assignments across 12 faculties or schools in a Canadian university in order to identify types of writing tasks. Based on the descriptions provided by the instructors, we identified nine types of assignments, with scholarly essay being the most common, followed by summary and response, literature review, project,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Assignments, Task Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Twomey, Sarah Jane – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
Through a feminist content analysis of young women's writing and reflections, this study gives evidence of how a school-based new literacy project shared knowledge in a public voice about the irreducible and complex world of "becoming" a girl. This project, called "The Pink Voice," was conducted in a large urban centre on the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Literacy Education, Urban Areas, Writing Assignments
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Peterson, Shelly Stagg; McClay, Jill Kedersha; Main, Kristin – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
This article reports the results of interview research examining writing instruction and assessment practices in 216 Grades 4-8 classrooms across the 10 Canadian provinces and 2 (of 3) territories. Researchers found that participating teachers scheduled daily time for writing, either in language arts classes or through integrating writing…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Creative Writing, Editing, Grade 4
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Rowinsky-Geurts, Mercedes – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
The purpose of the conference presentation upon which this paper is inspired was to present an innovative approach to motivate students to write in a second language during a first-year Spanish class. Usually, students comply with writing exercises that convey basic thoughts, due to constrained vocabulary and limited knowledge of grammatical…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Exercises