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Nicolas, Corinne E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Concerns about the poor quality of students' use of sources in undergraduate research writing have typically led to investigations either of students' information-seeking strategies or of their composing practices. I argue that an either/or approach provides an incomplete picture of students' research writing processes, and that an exploration of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Seeking, Student Research, Writing Assignments
Darragh, Janine Julianna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This intervention study examined the impact of reading young adult novels that portray people with disabilities on the attitudes of 229 eighth grade students. Students' beliefs and intentions to interact with peers with disabilities were measured on three occasions utilizing the Shared Activities Questionnaire (Morgan, Walker, Bieberich &…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Disabilities, Grade 8, Novels
Mungons, Renee L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Multigenre writing is defined as a collection of pieces written in a variety of genres but centered on one topic. It is distinctively different from traditional research writing in that the writer has autonomy to select a topic of interest, determine which genres will best express the information and make decisions throughout the writing process.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Thematic Approach
VanAlstine, Sharri Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2011
An internationalized approach will enable classroom teachers to confidently integrate music within their classroom content and pedagogical approach to teaching within an international framework. There has been no research, however, into an internationalized approach to instruction in the music methods coursework for pre-service elementary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Writing Assignments, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum