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Nelson, Nancy; King, James R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Research into "discourse synthesis" examines the ways in which writers make use of, and transform, multiple other texts in writing their own. It is intertextual research that has blurred boundaries of various kinds, not only the boundary between the processes of reading and writing but also boundaries across disciplines as well as…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Synthesis, Information Sources, Connected Discourse
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Gordon, Ricia – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2004
This article profiles a group of college students with learning disabilities, outlines strategies used to help those students in their 100-level expository-writing class, and illustrates persistent writing problems with three student writing samples. This study revealed that, even with explicit support, students whose learning disabilities had an…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Writing Instruction, Two Year College Students
Rankin, Walter – Educational Technology, 1997
The "cyberjournal" is a bridge between handwritten journals and word-processed essays that can be integrated into college courses to help students improve writing skills and maintain classwide discourse and multivoicedness through the Internet. Discusses the advantages of cyberjournals (class-centered, public, task-focused,…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Connected Discourse, Cooperation, Educational Technology