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Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Paszek, Joseph; Gorzelsky, Gwen; Hayes, Carol L.; Jones, Edmund – Written Communication, 2020
Using a mixed-methods, multi-institutional design of general education writing courses at four institutions, this study examined genre as a key factor for understanding and promoting writing development. It thus aims to provide empirical validation of decades of theoretical work on and qualitative studies of genre and the nature of genre…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Information Sources, Metacognition, Writing Processes
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Ahmed, Tanzina – Written Communication, 2021
Although community colleges are important entry points into higher education for many American students, few studies have investigated how community college students engage with different genres or develop genre knowledge. Even fewer have connected students' genre knowledge to their academic performance. The present article discusses how 104…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Writing (Composition), Literary Genres
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Gallagher, John R. – Written Communication, 2015
This article investigates the strategies web-writers develop when their audiences respond to them via textual participation. Focusing on three web-writers who want to "continue the conversation," this article identifies five major strategies to accomplish this aim: (a) editing after production, (b) quotation, (c) question posing, (d)…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Internet, Authors, Editing