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Rodríguez-Málaga, Lucía; Rodríguez, Celestino; Fidalgo, Raquel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The principal aim of strategy-focused instruction is to teach students strategies to control their writing processes and achieve quality writing. For this purpose, nine 4th grade Elementary School classes from three different schools (N = 215) were randomly allocated to two forms of strategy-focused program called cognitive self-regulation…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests
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Zhu, Xinhua; Li, Guan Ying; Cheong, Choo Mui; Yu, Guoxing; Liao, Xian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigates the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students' overall integrated writing performance in Chinese, students' first language, and English, their second language. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that 63.6% of the variance in students' overall…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Discourse Analysis
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Jennings, Amanda; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The study developed a model of linguistic constructs to predict writing quality for college basic writers and analyzed how those constructs changed following instruction. Analysis used a corpus of argumentative essays from a quasi-experimental, instructional study with 252 students (MacArthur, Philippakos, & Ianetta, 2015) that found large…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Essays, Factor Analysis