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Knight, Stephanie K.; Greenberger, Scott W.; McNaughton, Morgan E. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Students need feedback from instructors to learn from their mistakes and improve their academic skills. Responding to student writing is a central and necessary component of the instructor-student feedback loop. There are many forms of feedback on written assignments, and not all of them have the same role in supporting student learning. For…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Feedback (Response), Written Language, College Students
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Kathleen A. J. Mohr; Cindy D. Jones; Kalie Chamberlain; Kara DeCoursey; Marla Robertson; Catherine Summers; Megan Bagley – Reading Teacher, 2024
Despite strong support for integrating reading and writing instruction, writing practice is often crowded out of the schedule in elementary classrooms. To promote increased emphasis on writing, a working group of literacy researchers highlights three writing goals and six research-based reading-to-writing practices to enliven instruction with more…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Integrated Activities, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Pessoa, Silvia; Gomez-Laich, Maria Pia; Liginlal, Divakaran; Mitchell, Thomas D. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
In this paper, we present a collaboration between writing professors and an information systems (IS) professor to scaffold case analysis writing at an American English-medium branch campus in the Middle East. We describe our process for revising the professor's writing assignment to make his expectations more explicit and for creating scaffolding…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Feedback (Response), Writing Workshops, North American English
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Leopold, Lisa – CATESOL Journal, 2011
This case study of an adjunct-model English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing course linked to a policy-analysis course describes an effective approach for putting "specificity" into practice in EAP curriculum design. The rationale for interdisciplinary collaboration, the positive learning outcomes from the EAP writing course, the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, Content Area Writing, Literary Genres
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Riddell, William T.; Courtney, Jennifer; Constans, Eric; Dahm, Kevin; Harvey, Roberta; von Lockette, Paris – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
An integrated technical writing and design course has been developed at Rowan University. This course was developed using aspects of project-based learning and recent discussions about design education, as well as pedagogical approaches from the write-to-learn and the writing in the disciplines (WID) movements. The result is a course where the…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Writing Instruction, Student Projects, Design