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Guiney Yallop, John J.; Naylor, Kathleen; Sharif, Shamimara; Taylor, Nancy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
One of the challenges we face in higher education is knowing who we are as individuals and as communities. Poetic inquiry (Prendergast, Leggo, & Sameshima, 2009) is a way into that knowing, a way of exploring our own identities and our relationships with each other. Poetic inquiry creates a space for evocative knowing. This research project,…
Descriptors: Poetry, Reading Aloud to Others, Writing Processes, Process Approach (Writing)
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Wellington, Jerry – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
This paper starts from the premise that there is more to writing than simply skill, knowledge and ability, i.e. cognition. This is an important part of writing but is only one aspect of it. The paper discusses the idea of the affective domain and goes on to focus largely on the positive and negative attitudes and feelings of graduate students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
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Mullen, Carol A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1999
Describes implementation of a writing process and feedback (WPF) model, which presented getting published as an appropriate expectation of all graduate students. The model included structured sequential classroom assignments, student editorial review boards, guest classroom appearances by published writers, and extensive feedback from faculty and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Models, Process Approach (Writing), Scholarly Writing
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Mullen, Carol A. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
With support and guidance, graduate students can successfully pursue academic writing for publication. In graduate circles, academic writing is presumed to be a solitary activity for which students already are prepared. Yet, the reality is that students tend to find academic writing difficult and stressful, and they often look to university…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Discourse, Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction
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Mullen, Carol A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2006
In graduate circles, academic writing is presumed to be a solitary activity for which students already are prepared. Yet, the reality is that students tend to find academic writing difficult and stressful, and they often look to university faculty members for guidance. Faculty members, in turn, may provide hands-on practice and other classroom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Difficulties, Graduate Students, Writing Instruction
Darn, Steve; Ulusoglu-Darn, Bahar – Online Submission, 2006
Writing is often considered the most difficult and time-consuming skill to teach. There is a strong prejudice against writing lessons among Turkish students and teachers, both at high school and university levels. This paper describes the problems that students and teachers have in undergraduate writing classes and suggests journal writing as an…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Journal Writing, Graduate Students