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Chaterdon, Kate – Composition Forum, 2022
Over the past two decades, writing studies scholars have continually stressed the importance of fostering the development of student metacognition in the writing classroom. Not only does the development of a metacognitive awareness of the writing process help students to become stronger writers, it also allows them to more successfully transfer…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Metacognition, Intervention, College Students
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Hayes, Hogan; Whithaus, Carl – Composition Forum, 2022
Discourse-based interviews allow researchers to gather data about a writer's understanding of what informs a task. This method was essential for a research team seeking to understand the impact of programmatic learning objectives on student writing development. Three decisions in the approach to this research project sought to center the student…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Skills
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Baillargeon, Kathryn – Composition Forum, 2020
This article seeks to answer two questions: what kinds of expertise are needed to lead an effective dissertation boot camp; and how can those outside the graduate student's discipline support their writing? Drawing on four years of application data and post-camp interviews, I reveal how writing process knowledge--similar to that described in the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing Workshops, Writing Processes
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VanKooten, Crystal – Composition Forum, 2016
Recent research in writing studies has highlighted meta-awareness as valuable for student learning in courses such as first-year writing (FYW); however, meta-awareness needs to be further theorized and its components identified. In this article, I draw on a case study of six students in two FYW courses that is informed by Gregory Schraw's model of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Freshman Composition, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Fife, Jane – Composition Forum, 2017
Writers must learn to control factors that influence the ability to focus, especially in what some call a culture of distraction. In our efforts to promote metacognition and flexible writing processes, writing teachers need to engage students in study and discussion of factors in our temporal, social, media, social media, and attentional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Undergraduate Students, Attention
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Santos, Marc C.; McIntyre, Megan M. – Composition Forum, 2016
This article details how we integrate Jody Shipka's approach to creativity and rhetorical awareness into a Professional Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology major at the University of South Florida. We situate Shipka's pedagogy alongside postpedagogy, differentiating the latter from postcomposition. In short, we argue that postpedagogy echoes…
Descriptors: Creativity, Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Writing Skills