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Thonney, Teresa – Across the Disciplines, 2013
This article describes a study of how students use first person pronouns in papers written for undergraduate courses in multiple disciplines. If prompted, students imitate some of the ways experts use first person to establish their authority; but just as often students use first person pronouns to express uncertainty or to reveal that they have…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Form Classes (Languages), Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Patton, Martha Davis; Taylor, Summer Smith – Across the Disciplines, 2013
This study examines the writing of 30 engineering students, faculty response, students' reading of the response, subsequent revision, and faculty evaluation to ask what factors contribute to constructive conversation about writing. It affirms previous research that suggests engineering faculty do not provide the facilitative commentary widely…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Engineering Education
Dean, Christopher W. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
"Developing and Assessing an Online Research Writing Course" discusses how the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) created a hybrid, online research writing course, Writing 50, and assessed that course. The assessment, which is at the center of this piece, was dovetailed with assessment literature in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Skills
Hass, Michael; Osborn, Jan – Across the Disciplines, 2007
This study uses student reflections of previous success in academic writing to guide instructors as they design writing assignments. Seventy-one students in five classes responded to a questionnaire designed to help them identify particularly successful writing experiences and reflect on the circumstances, strategies, and methods they believed…
Descriptors: Student Writing Models, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Processes, Reflection