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Proske, Antje; Narciss, Susanne; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
Research on expert performance suggests that deliberate practice provides optimal opportunities for expertise development. This study examined whether the provision of computer-based scaffolding (CBS) guiding deliberate practice facilitates students' development of writing expertise. A CBS environment "escribo" was designed to externally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Research, Expertise
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek; Mirjan, Zahra' Imad – Online Submission, 2008
This study aimed at investigating the effect of electronic dialogue journaling on Jordanian upper basic stage EFL students' writing performance. The study utilized a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The subjects of the study consisted of fifty students enrolled in the Islamic Educational School during the first semester of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language)
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Wood, Eileen; Willoughby, Teena; Specht, Jacqueline; Porter, Lisa – Computers & Education, 2002
Describes a study conducted at two Canadian universities that surveyed a cross-section of 361 faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students to assess computer availability, experience, attitudes toward computers, and use of computers while engaged in academic writing. Compares advantages and disadvantages of writing on a computer versus written,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Comparative Analysis, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education