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Alexander, Patricia A.; Fusenig, Jannah; Schoute, Eric C.; Singh, Anisha; Sun, Yuting; van Meerten, Julianne E. – Written Communication, 2023
In this article, we share what we learned about undergraduates' struggles in writing quality summaries, comparison texts, and argumentative essays that were components of a unique course, Learning How to Learn. This course was designed to address core psychological issues that impede optimal learning for students from all majors, many of whom are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Academic Language
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Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition