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O'Sullivan, Íde; Hart, D. Alexis; Holmes, Ashley J.; Knutson, Anna V.; Sinha, Yogesh; Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Composition Forum, 2022
This article draws on examples of student interviews incorporating multiple modalities to explore the writing lives of students as part of a larger project focusing on participants' experiences of writing within and beyond the university. We explain this innovative, iterative research method combining multiple texts and maps, characterizing it as…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Interviews
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Chaterdon, Kate – Composition Forum, 2022
Over the past two decades, writing studies scholars have continually stressed the importance of fostering the development of student metacognition in the writing classroom. Not only does the development of a metacognitive awareness of the writing process help students to become stronger writers, it also allows them to more successfully transfer…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Metacognition, Intervention, College Students
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Hayes, Hogan; Whithaus, Carl – Composition Forum, 2022
Discourse-based interviews allow researchers to gather data about a writer's understanding of what informs a task. This method was essential for a research team seeking to understand the impact of programmatic learning objectives on student writing development. Three decisions in the approach to this research project sought to center the student…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Skills
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Jankens, Adrienne – Composition Forum, 2019
Positioned within our field's work on supporting transfer of writing-related knowledge through careful course design, this article describes the development of a pedagogical intervention designed to help students identify knowledge gaps and pose questions about rhetoric and genre. Below, I tell the story of a 2012 teacher research study that…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Rhetoric, Essays, Freshman Composition
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Martorana, Christine – Composition Forum, 2016
The Real/Ideal Research Project is comprised of three components, ordered in purposeful succession, designed to emphasize the interconnectedness of emotion, reason, and action. In the first component, students compose a personal narrative focused on a specific inequity they (have) experience(d) or witnessed. Here, students are encouraged to…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Personal Narratives, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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VanKooten, Crystal – Composition Forum, 2016
Recent research in writing studies has highlighted meta-awareness as valuable for student learning in courses such as first-year writing (FYW); however, meta-awareness needs to be further theorized and its components identified. In this article, I draw on a case study of six students in two FYW courses that is informed by Gregory Schraw's model of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Freshman Composition, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Patrick, Amy M. – Composition Forum, 2010
This article examines ways in which the fundamentals of both writing studies and sustainability studies overlap and complement each other, ultimately moving toward a theory of writing that not only is sustainable, but that also sustains writing practice across a variety of areas. For example, in order to be sustainable, both writing and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Sustainability, Writing Processes, Writing Strategies