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Kathrynn DiTommaso – Forum for International Research on Students and Teaching, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a study of student writing that assessed the skill needs of a cohort of developmental writing students enrolled in a co-requisite composition course at a community college that is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). This credit-bearing course fulfills the first half of the required composition…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Freshman Composition, Writing Evaluation, Diagnostic Teaching
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Ihara, Rachel – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
This article argues that the national trend to replace developmental writing programs with mainstreaming and corequisite courses presents an important opportunity to reconsider writing goals and assessment practices for all students. This insight emerges in part from data collected over several semesters at one community college, which showed that…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Acceleration (Education), Educational Change
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Plachta, Susan M.; Morris, Kevin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
In this article, the authors discuss what works for them in their first-year composition classes. In order to promote critical thinking and goal setting within her developmental writing and first-year composition classes, Susan Plachta begins their first class session by completing the standard introductions and syllabus discussions and finishes…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Basic Writing, Goal Orientation, Writing Instruction
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Grobman, Laurie – Journal of Basic Writing, 1999
Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a project that used a peer group leader to help build bridges between basic writers and academic writers. Discusses the implications for the further use of peer group leaders in basic writing. (NH)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Wambach, Cathrine; delMas, Robert – 1998
A study evaluated a new freshman writing course offered to students at the University of Minnesota who were underprepared for study at a major research university. In the fall of 1997 it was proposed that all freshmen be placed in for-credit, strengthened, basic writing courses rather than placing certain students in non-credit, pre-college-level…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College English, College Freshmen, Course Evaluation
Burley, Hansel; And Others – 1996
Proper placement of students into either remedial writing or Composition I can be crucial to their success in higher education. Using a database of nearly 6,000 students who entered an open admissions community college in Texas, the researchers attempted to discover the best predictor of student success in Composition I. For students who took a…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Grading