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Michael D'Addario – Discover Education, 2025
With the proliferation of easy-to-use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, students in college composition courses can and do take advantage of such technology to assist with essay writing. While a growing body of research does not see using these tools as a problem in itself, institutional, departmental, and instructor policies about generative…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Language Usage, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Godsell, Sarah – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: The history essay, and historical writing, are crucial forms of assessment in History throughout primary and high school education. This article draws from an autoethnography of teachings in a pre-service history teachers' school classroom. This article discusses obstacles students experience in conceptualising and writing the history…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, History Instruction, Essays, Preservice Teachers
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McKnight, Lucinda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The teaching of writing in secondary English subjects in Australia, as in other countries including England and the United States, has become increasingly formulaic. Pedagogies including direct instruction, modelling, scaffolding, and genre-based approaches involve the implementation of formulas for writing sentences, paragraphs, and entire…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Krista Senatore – Reading Teacher, 2024
The author, a fifth-grade teacher, describes how she reimagined the literary essay curriculum to amplify student identity, agency, and voice by creating a class podcast. Because of their similar structure and organization, teaching students literary analysis and interpretation through podcast writing offered entry into literary essays. The author…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Essays, Self Concept, Personal Autonomy
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Larsen, Mads – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Research shows that students write better academic essays if the instructor facilitates a process of preparation that allows for purposeful peer discussion. Drawing on screenwriting pedagogy, this article proposes a workshop model that lets students express their essay's structural elements as single sentences, which allows for effective peer and…
Descriptors: Essays, Process Approach (Writing), Web Based Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Michael, Elizabeth Loftin; Ray, Amber; McKeown, Debra – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Strategy instruction is an effective method for improving the writing skills of students who struggle when writing. It is critical when implementing strategy instruction that assessment of the strategy takes place in addition to assessment of writing. Practitioners should consider strategy assessment to ensure student proper use of strategy. This…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Evaluation
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Bartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
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Boyko-Head, Christine – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
A multi-perspective, exploratory framework applicable to all critical thinking, creative and communication acts, 3D-Briefing synthesizes meticulous enquiry questions with a user-focused, equitable stance toward meaning production. It scaffolds identification, interpretation, evaluation, reflection and action in a user-empowered, three step process…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Sequential Learning, Creative Thinking
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Van Melik, Rianne; Ernste, Huib – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Although photography has long been acknowledged as an important research method and didactical tool in human geography, we feel the need to redraw attention to this particular form of doing explorative research. Today's society becomes increasingly "ocularcentral", yet this trend seems unparalleled with a rise of photography in academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students
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Laz, Cheryl – Teaching Sociology, 2020
Although there is a great deal of available material on using nontraditional resources for teaching sociology, the pedagogical uses of science fiction have not been examined for 20 years. This essay first asserts the need for an update based on changes in society and in science fiction over the past two decades. The paper then focuses on the uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sociology, Introductory Courses, Science Fiction
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Bomford, Kate – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This essay considers the relative merits of critical writing and writing in role as a means of enabling and assessing students' responses to literary texts. Drawing largely on the author's experience of teaching "Frankenstein," it argues that the distinction between critical and creative writing is not as absolute as is sometimes…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes, Creative Writing
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Benali, Ameni – English Language Teaching, 2021
It is undeniable that attempts to develop automated feedback systems that support and enhance language learning and assessment have increased in the last few years. The growing demand for using technology in the classroom and the promotions provided by automated- written-feedback program developers and designers, drive many educational…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Sarah M. Lacy – Journal of Response to Writing, 2022
In this teaching article I discuss the pedagogical implications of a classroom activity in which students work reflectively with instructor feedback that has been provided to their writing. Using the "comments" feature in Google Docs, instructors create a dialogue with students through "feedback conversations," in which…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Dialogs (Language), Writing Instruction
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McKnight, Lucinda – English in Australia, 2020
The development of curriculum requires dialogue with both past and future. As the state of Victoria gears up to revise the current study design for Literature, one of three 'Englishes' students can study at senior levels, numbers of students opting to take the subject have dropped over recent years. With high-stakes exam-based assessment dominant,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Foreign Countries, English Literature, Educational Change
Murphy, Robert F. – RAND Corporation, 2019
Recent applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have been successful in performing complex tasks in health care, financial markets, manufacturing, and transportation logistics, but the influence of AI applications in the education sphere has been limited. However, that may be changing. In this paper, the author discusses several ways that AI…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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