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Reagan D. Murnan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The genre of persuasive writing requires writers to independently probe their long-term memory to generate pertinent ideas that support their opinion on a given topic. However, many students with high-incidence disabilities struggle with the complex synergy of tasks involved in writing, and in particular generating ideas. A qualitatively dominant…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Writing Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Dina Zoleo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Writing places heavy demands on students' cognitive capacity. Existing research suggests that planning before writing can help to alleviate this cognitive burden; thus improving the quality of student writing. In this explanatory sequential mixed-methods study, the researcher examined the efficacy of specific pre-planning tools on students'…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Paragraph Composition
Briddell, Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study of 1,974 fifth grade students investigated potential relationships between writing process-based instruction practices and higher-order thinking measured by a standardized literacy assessment. Writing process is defined as a highly complex, socio-cognitive process that includes: planning, text production, review, metacognition, writing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Writing Instruction, Thinking Skills
Zheng, Jinjie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
New technologies and Internet resources are becoming more and more integral to 21st century writing. To write well in the 21st century requires the coordination of new technologies, new skills, and new information. The central challenge to coordinate these new elements of contemporary writing is the deictic influence they have on writing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Writing Processes, Internet, Prior Learning
Feldman, Donna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The reading scores on the "Nation's Report Card for 2007" indicate that not all children share the same proficiency in literacy. Reading and writing require the use of similar cognitive processes, yet few studies focus on this relationship or how writing can be a tool for reading remediation. The research questions in this study addressed the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Report Cards, Ethnicity, Reading Tests