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Pervaiz Yaseeni; Fahim Rahimi; Fareed Sahil – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Academic writing is a salient skill for medical students all over the world. Academic writing starts with composing effective paragraphs, laying the foundation for students' advancement in writing during college. This study investigated common mistakes in English paragraph writing committed by the first-year medical students of the Medicine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Paragraph Composition, Scores
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Clark, Lindsay C.; Luo, Zijun; Smith, Ashly Bender – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2020
Writing support programs for students in writing-intensive, disciplinary courses are well established and take many forms, including communication centers, web-based skill development programs, and embedded writing consultants. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a program that embeds a writing grader, who assesses only the grammar of…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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Griswold, Olga – CATESOL Journal, 2017
This study analyzed the grammatical control of verbs exercised by 145 monolingual English and Generation 1.5 bilingual developmental writers in narrative essays using quantitative and qualitative methods. Generation 1.5 students made more errors than their monolingual peers in each category investigated, albeit in only 2 categories was the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Verbs, Grammar