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L. L. Aull – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article traces the history of college writing and suggests a different way ahead. To show why we need this approach, the article historicizes the start of postsecondary English as a paradoxical one, committed to egalitarian ideals while privileging narrow and exclusive English usage. To offer an alternative approach, the article synthesizes…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Postsecondary Education, English
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Baba, Kyoko; Nitta, Ryo – Language Learning, 2014
This study explored patterns in L2 writing development by focusing on one of the linguistic features of texts (fluency) from a complex dynamic systems perspective. It investigated whether two English-as-a-foreign-language university students would experience discontinuous change (phase transition) in their writing fluency through repetition of a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Text Structure