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Download full textLaSalle, Dan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Struck by his students' often hostile and apathetic responses to assignments and instruction and hoping to contribute to the knowledge of motivation, Dan LaSalle began to take an inquiry stance on his own practice. He studied his practice on three fronts with the help of an off-site teacher research group: (1) how his inquiry question changes as a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Essays, Writing Instruction, Inquiry
Direct linkFedora, Pledger – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2015
This exploratory study was designed to assess the experience of preservice teachers when integrating written language technology and their likelihood of applying that technology in their future classrooms. Results suggest that after experiencing technology integration, preservice teachers are more likely to use it in their future teaching.
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Special Needs Students, Writing Difficulties
Peer reviewedCarino, Peter – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1994
Examines the writing assignments and instruction in 30 introductory literature textbooks. Finds three types of writing assignments: the "ever popular" critical paper, the expressive paper, and the literary paper. Presents excerpts of student papers to demonstrate that writing on expressive and literary topics can help students see the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Student Writing Models, Textbook Research
Miller, Richard E. – 1991
The struggle in the composition community regarding the place of personal narrative in academic writing became particularly acute for a class of undergraduate Critical Writing students undertaking ethnographic work. By mid-semester, students had read and produced a series of texts about culture and found themselves reading and writing about…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnography, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
Welsch, Kathleen A. – 1992
Composition pedagogy that challenges students to reflect on their participation in discourse communities reveals an attempt by teachers to balance disciplinary concerns with the realities of students' worlds. Such a pedagogy consists of students repositioning themselves in relation to the various discourses which comprise their own ways of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Student Writing Models
Matz, Karl A. – 1990
The University of North Dakota possesses an archive containing the schoolwork, writings, and artworks of 32 children. In a study, all of the fiction and poetry of three of the children were gathered, as were teachers' descriptive records and examples of the children's drawings. It can be concluded from a study of the randomly selected children…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Writing Models
