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Undergraduate Computer Science Students' Ways of Transferring Prior and Concurrent Writing Knowledge: Exploring Disciplinary and Individual Knowledge Domains
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Omar Ahmed Yacoub – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Purpose of this dissertation is to explore undergraduate Computer Science (CS) students' writing processes and transfer as they occur in the process of completing a writing assignment in a CS course. In particular, I observe and analyze students' writing processes, and investigate examples of writing knowledge transfer from prior and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Majors (Students), Transfer of Training
"The Illusion of Collaboration": An Integrated Examination of the Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences of Online Group Work
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Jill Cathleen Woods – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) presents postsecondary educators with a conundrum: how to design and support small-group activities without stifling deep and meaningful learning. The literature indicates that students are not consistently practicing higher-order cognitive activities, educators are not reliably designing or…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Prior Learning
"It's All Part of an Education": Case Studies of Writing Knowledge Transfer across Academic and Social Media Domains among Four Feminist College Students
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Knutson, Anna V. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation consists of four micro-case studies of intersectional feminist college students' experiences with writing across digital extracurricular and academic domains. These micro-case studies were selected from a longitudinal study of eight students' experiences. In response to ongoing questions about writing knowledge transfer generally…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Transfer of Training, Social Media
From High School Writing to College Writing: A Case Study of University Freshmen in Transition
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Waner, Lisa Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students moving from high school writing to college writing are, from a sociocultural perspective, transitioning from one "community of practice" to another, from one "Discourse" to another (Gee, 1992; Wenger, 1998). This process can be difficult, not only for basic writers (Bartholomae, 1985; Shaughnessy, 1977) but also for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Communities of Practice, Student Experience
Remembering to Teach: Writing Instruction in Disciplinary Classrooms
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Kirell, Leah R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following dissertation explores how higher education faculty members' memories of learning content and learning to write influence their pedagogical practices and examines how disciplinary and departmental contexts intersect with those pedagogical practices. The research was designed as a nested case study that draws on interview data,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Memory
Multimodal Representation Contributes to the Complex Development of Science Literacy in a College Biology Class
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Bennett, William Drew – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study is an investigation into the science literacy of college genetics students who were given a modified curriculum to address specific teaching and learning problems from a previous class. This study arose out of an interest by the professor and researcher to determine how well students in the class Human Genetics in the 21st Century…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Writing Assignments, Homework, Prior Learning