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Lin, Hsing-Yin Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores seven second language (L2) undergraduates' learning experiences in a First-Year Writing (FYW) course at an American university. While the FYW course is designed from the perspective of first-language (L1) composition scholarship and focuses, broadly speaking, on analytical writing and the related development of critical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zahodnic, Richard J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The optimal development of expertise is dependent on the application of a regimen of deliberate practice. A component of this practice is the development of critical thinking skills related to the solving of complex problems in ill-structured, naturalistic environments. The cognitive steps used to solve problems by experts is frequently not…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Decision Making