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Debbie Goss; Wenqi Cui – Composition Forum, 2024
University students can become overwhelmed and hopeless as they pursue their final capstone writing projects. They are also navigating trying times of overlapping crises such as poverty, environmental decay, and war. To address these challenges, our Capstone Writing Groups (CWG) are designed to develop students' writerly competence and enhance…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Capstone Experiences
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Cronmiller, James; Babulski, Julie; Collins, Kimberley; Finn, Michele; Hall, Susan; Hill, Jennifer; Jacobs, Michael; Markham, Jennifer; Murphy, James; Vest, MaryJo; Wahba, Artif; Wendtland, Christopher – HAPS Educator, 2022
Writing Intensive (WR) High Impact Practice (HIP), which incorporates Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), was applied to written assignments in Human Biology and Anatomy and Physiology II (A&P II) courses. As part of our study sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), certified AAC&U Valid…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Critical Thinking, Writing Assignments, Community Colleges
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Darowski, Emily S.; Helder, Elizabeth; Patson, Nikole D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Identifying effective and time-efficient approaches to teaching students how to write from scholarly sources benefits students and instructors. Students in a general psychology course learned a concrete method to improve this type of synthesis writing. The intervention was brief, consisting of viewing an online tutorial outside of class and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Merkel, Warren – TESOL Journal, 2020
In recent decades, a wealth of studies on second language writing and plagiarism have emerged, particularly with the increase of international students enrolling in academic institutions that favor English-medium instruction. In most of these studies, the plagiarism-related variables (e.g., paraphrase) under scrutiny are determined by the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Attitudes
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Lee, Senyung; Lim, Gad S.; Basse, Rachel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated the extent to which an extended time limit in an argumentative writing test affects the quality of argumentation in L2 writing. Thirty-two adult ESL learners each wrote two essays on different prompts, one in 30 minutes and one in 45 minutes in a counter-balanced design. The 64 essays were analytically rated by four trained…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Adult Learning
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Cahyono, Bambang Yudi; Rahayu, Titik – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2020
There have been a lot of research studies on the role of motivation in education and language learning. However, research on the role of motivation in the area of EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is a rare undertaking. This study aimed to examine the correlation between EFL students' motivation in writing and their writing proficiency.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Motivation, Writing Skills
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Bruce Bowles – Journal of Response to Writing, 2020
In spite of a host of scholarship pertaining to response and the contexts that surround our response practices, few have studied how everyday classroom texts may inform students' interpretations of teachers' written feedback on their writing. This article examines the results from case studies of six students across two first-year composition…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, Context Effect
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Voet, Michiel; Gielen, Mario; Boelens, Ruth; De Wever, Bram – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
Criticizing the common approach of supporting peer assessment through providing assessors with an explication of assessment criteria, recent insights on peer assessment call for support focusing on assessees, who often assume a passive role of receivers of feedback. Feedback requests, which require assessees to formulate their specific needs for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, College Freshmen, Evaluation Criteria
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Rahimi, Muhammad; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study explored the effects of increasing the number of elements and the degree of reasoning on second language (L2) writing and also examined the relationship between writing motivational beliefs and anxiety and L2 writing in simple versus complex tasks. Sixty upper-intermediate L2 learners were invited to write simple and complex…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Student Motivation, Anxiety
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Wang, Elaine Lin; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Writing analytically about text is a valued skill reflected in current academic standards. The quality of text-based writing opportunities in U.S. elementary schools, however, is generally weak, with variation in the rigor of the writing tasks teachers assign. Previous research suggests that teachers' beliefs about instruction significantly…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4
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Pilkington, Olga A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2018
Active learning and online education have become important aspects of knowledge delivery. Nevertheless, little research exists on how active learning techniques can be implemented in an online environment. Deliberate equivalence of methods and materials for onsite and online delivery mechanisms is often seen as a strong point in favor of a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Online Courses, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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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)
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Fiscus, Jaclyn M. – Composition Forum, 2017
Scholarship on metacognition in the composition classroom shows how asking students to create reflective texts can help cue, analyze, and assess transfer. By following the composition processes of 13 students doing a remixing assignment, this project examines how genre mediates reflection. I use Rhetorical Genre Studies' conception of…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Metacognition
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Katja Thieme; Shurli Makmillen – College Composition and Communication, 2017
This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the academy. Like genres, research methods are embedded in systems of interaction that create subject positions and social relations. Using rhetorical genre…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Research Methodology, Rhetoric, Indigenous Knowledge
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Kostopoulou, Stergiani; O'Dwyer, Fergus – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This evidence-based, procedural paper outlines academic writing peer review practices conducted by Pre-Master's Pathway and pre-undergraduate Foundation programme students at two Irish universities. The theoretical framework section presents the view that formative teacher feedback on student writing alone is insufficient, suggesting sustainable…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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