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Pervaiz Yaseeni; Fahim Rahimi; Fareed Sahil – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Academic writing is a salient skill for medical students all over the world. Academic writing starts with composing effective paragraphs, laying the foundation for students' advancement in writing during college. This study investigated common mistakes in English paragraph writing committed by the first-year medical students of the Medicine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Paragraph Composition, Scores
Yu, Shuying – English Language Teaching, 2022
People frequently struggle with comprehending the text they read and require more intensive support to develop proficiency in reading comprehension. Some find it perplexing observing all the elements and constituents of the paragraph theory. Good readers, however, can understand what a paragraph is by studying the conjunction relationships between…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Mihai Dascalu; Scott Andrew Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The ability to express yourself concisely and coherently is a crucial skill, both for academic purposes and professional careers. An important aspect to consider in writing is an adequate segmentation of ideas, which in turn requires a proper understanding of where to place paragraph breaks. However, these decisions are often performed…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Text Structure, Automation, Identification
Ferdi Çelik; Zerrin Eren – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This qualitative study investigates the errors committed by Turkish EFL learners and the rate of spelling mistakes to grammar errors in learners' paragraphs. In order to examine these issues, 19 participants studying at a private high school in Turkey took part in this study. The qualitative data were collected through students' paragraphs written…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Error Patterns
Schumaker, Jean Bragg – Exceptionality, 2023
This study involved a pretest-posttest control-group design in which four multimedia writing programs were tested with secondary students across a school year. These programs were based on strategic instruction and focused on the skills of writing complete sentences, paragraph writing, and theme writing. Measures included scores on practice…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Hochman, Judith C.; Vroom, Toni-Ann; Zoleo, Dina – American Educator, 2023
Writing can improve children's speaking, boost their reading comprehension, build their knowledge, and elevate their thinking. However a reason it may be hard to learn is that without explicit writing instruction, children often write the way they speak. From elementary through high school, many children answer questions with little elaboration.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Thinking Skills, Communication Skills
Mohamed S. Bakry; Mahmoud Mohamed Emam – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Expository writing (EW) is crucial for the literacy development of students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in inclusive classrooms. Students with ID, however, struggle with EW due to problems with generating, organizing, and producing text. Similarly, teachers of students with ID face challenges with employing the appropriate instructional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Expository Writing, Intellectual Disability, Inclusion
Morrison, Ryan – Online Submission, 2022
Large Language Models (LLM) -- powerful algorithms that can generate and transform text -- are set to disrupt language learning education and text-based assessments as they allow for automation of text that can meet certain outcomes of many traditional assessments such as essays. While there is no way to definitively identify text created by this…
Descriptors: Models, Mathematics, Automation, Natural Language Processing
He, Yuemin; Gaiser, Catherine Megliola – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2023
The five-paragraph essay is highly controversial, and yet it has also been a useful format for composition. In this essay we explain why, despite its limits, students need to go along with the format to make what use and get what advantage of it. We then demonstrate that valuing the philosophical, historical, cultural, and educational backgrounds…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Culturally Relevant Education, Asian American Students
Umbreen Tariq – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities to improve the English essay writing of Pakistani university students. It highlights the role of CALL in the language proficiency model cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), which can enable second language learners to engage in more critical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wan Jusoh, Wan Nur Aida Sakinah; Abdul Jobar, Norfaizah; Md Yusoff, Md Zahril Nizam – Online Submission, 2022
This literature review looked at relevant research articles published in reputable journals from 2018 to 2022 to try to shed light on the areas: (1) Implications of using thematic progression pattern to improve the coherence and unity of student essays; and (2) The effects of thematic problems using the thematic progression approach in the…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Improvement, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
McKnight, Lucinda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The teaching of writing in secondary English subjects in Australia, as in other countries including England and the United States, has become increasingly formulaic. Pedagogies including direct instruction, modelling, scaffolding, and genre-based approaches involve the implementation of formulas for writing sentences, paragraphs, and entire…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education, English Instruction
Maki, Kathrin E.; Ittner, Anne; Pulles, Sandra M.; Burns, Matthew K.; Helman, Lori; McComas, Jennifer J. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) provide instruction and intervention to all students in schools. However, when many students within a setting demonstrate reading difficulties, there is likely a tier 1 problem which makes it infeasible to implement tier 2 or tier 3 interventions with large numbers of students due to limited resources. The…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Jama, Itithaz – International Education Studies, 2022
This research focused on the common errors that EFL learners included in their writing. The frequent errors that the study focused on were at the micro level, specifically the structures that related to gerund and infinitive forms. The participants were selected from the English language department at one of the Saudi universities. They were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Tiryaki, Esra Nur; Bi?can, Gülsat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
It is observed that individuals have problems in written expression in the Turkish education system, and a permanent solution can not be developed to solve these problems. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to determine the problems of prospective Turkish teachers in paragraph creation. This research was carried out in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Writing Skills, Paragraph Composition