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Havva Zorluel Özer – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
Drawing on surveys and interviews with college writing instructors and students at a public university in the United States, this mixed methods study revealed that in many cases instructors adopted translingual orientations, whereas students were committed to norms in their views of writing across differences. Students' orientations to language as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
Tamayo, Kristin – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2022
As part of their general education requirements, many incoming college students are required to enroll in composition courses that explore various college-level writing practices. Some students, including those who are part of Generation Z, struggle because they may be unfamiliar with academically-dense language, lack real-world experience using…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Persuasive Discourse, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition
Jiang, Jialei; Vetter, Matthew A. – Composition Forum, 2020
Wikipedia's gender gaps are both well-established and well-challenged, and while Wikipedia-based assignments have become more common in composition, teacher-scholars have not fully explored the opportunities for feminist pedagogy offered by the encyclopedia. This article reports on a teacher research study designed to examine the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feminism, Rhetoric, Electronic Publishing
Baird, Catherine; Soares, Tiffany – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
The study investigates the perceptions of first-year writing faculty of how their students develop information literacy (IL). The authors conducted 16 semi-structured interviews and analyzed them using a qualitative inductive coding method. The study contributes a close and nuanced understanding of faculty perceptions of IL learning to a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Information Literacy, Freshman Composition
Exploring Instructor Perceptions of and Practices for Public Discourse in First-Year Writing Courses
Parrott, Jill; Green, Lucas; Kaiser, Jordan; Smothers, Cody; Rodgers, Sam – CEA Forum, 2019
A central objective of many writing courses is to prepare students to effectively communicate in their personal, professional, and public lives, but writing instruction can seem disconnected from contemporary societal practices that constitute civil public discourse. This project aims to explore the connections between instructors' perceptions and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Writing Skills, College Faculty
Holton Brathwaite, Noel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Writing (Composition)
Gammons, Rachel Wilder; Inge, Lindsay Taylor – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
Information literacy instruction presents a difficult balance between quantity and quality, particularly for large-scale general education courses. This paper discusses the overhaul of the freshman composition instruction program at the University of Maryland Libraries, focusing on the transition from survey assessments to a student-centered and…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Program Administration, Information Literacy, Freshman Composition
Blackburn, Jessica – Composition Forum, 2012
This article addresses two central research questions: (1) Are there possible detrimental implications to teaching multimodal composition in first-year composition? (2) If so, what is pedagogy's role in mediating these outcomes? Guided by these questions and focused on the responses of eighty seven first-year composition students, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Methods Research, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Feminism
Hardy, Jack A.; Römer, Ute; Roberson, Audrey – Across the Disciplines, 2015
In attempts to find appropriate and authentic materials for students who are developing their academic writing skills, instructors often turn to works written by professional academics. However, genres such as published research articles and textbooks in specific disciplines may not be the most suitable models for what first year composition…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Student Writing Models, Writing Across the Curriculum
Jenson, Jill D. – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2011
The role of reflection in the learning process has taken on new significance in a digital environment. The potential of using innovative teaching methods to prompt first-year writing students to self-regulate learning behaviors and write more critical reflection statements when using electronic portfolios was studied over eight fall semesters.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Self Management, Critical Thinking

Markman, Marsha C.; Leighton, Gordon B. – Research Strategies, 1987
College freshmen enrolled in English composition classes were polled to determine their attitudes toward two different methods of bibliographic instruction: the lecture-discussion practicum and the workbook. Analysis indicated that most students perceived the lecture-discussion to be the more successful instructional technique for both general and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
What's Happening in Freshman Composition in the California Two-Year College: Forty-Eight Interviews.
Hale, Helena – 1980
The results of interviews conducted with 48 freshman writing/composition teachers in 11 two-year colleges in California are summarized in this report. After brief descriptive comments introducing each interview topic, responses are summarized by college to the following questions: (1) What placement procedures are used to assign students to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Interviews
Ney, James W. – 1989
This study examined the effectiveness of a cooperative learning model for the teaching of Freshman English at the college level. The model involved student presentations based on assigned readings from the texts, nine compositions and daily quizzes on the reading material, and peer grading of the daily quizzes as well as mid-term and final exams,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Freshman Composition, Grading, Higher Education