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Jefferson, Trevina – Online Submission, 2013
Background: This study discusses data-driven results of newly-developed writing tools that are objective, easy, and less time-consuming than standard classroom writing strategies; additionally, multiple motivation triggers and peer evaluation are evaluated together with these new, modernized writing tools. The results are explained separately and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Writing Strategies, Peer Evaluation
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Guerin, Cally; Xafis, Vicki; Doda, Diana V.; Gillam, Marianne H.; Larg, Allison J.; Luckner, Helene; Jahan, Nasreen; Widayati, Aris; Xu, Chuangzhou – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
Writing groups for doctoral students are generally agreed to provide valuable learning spaces for Ph.D. candidates. Here an academic developer and the eight members of a writing group formed in a Discipline of Public Health provide an account of their experiences of collaborating in a multicultural, multidisciplinary thesis writing group. We…
Descriptors: Public Health, Writing (Composition), Multicultural Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fenwick, Tara; Parsons, Jim – 1994
These three papers deal with ways to incorporate social studies into the language arts curriculum. The first paper, "What Social Studies Teachers Need To Know about Language Arts," provides suggestions on the writing process and how that process can be used in the social studies. Paper 2, "Applying Communications Activities to Learning Processes…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
McCoubrey, Sharon, Ed. – BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, 1993
This serial issue examines the theme of picture books as resources for art production and art response; gives specific project descriptions; and looks at the relationship between words and pictures, and the creative connection between art and language. Articles are: (1) "Editor's View" (Sharon McCoubrey); (2) "The Creative…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Art Education, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed. – 1997
This selection of papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy, which examined the role of literacy as a foundation for knowledge acquisition and dissemination that influences the academic success of tertiary students, presents a number of case studies of policy and practice in Australian universities. Keynote addresses included:…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Case Studies, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed.; Borland, Helen, Ed. – 1997
These selected papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy focus on communication across differences of culture and discipline in Australian universities. Many of the papers have resulted from cooperation between applied linguists and specialist lecturers and describe cooperative models of literacy education based on interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Discourse, Allied Health Occupations Education, Communication Skills