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Direct linkAlyssa Appelman; Kirstie Hettinga – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2024
This survey of US copy editors, proofreaders, and fact-checkers (N = 472) examines practitioners' perceptions of the skills and training required for the field. The participants recommended that new hires be skilled in grammar, sentence structure, working on deadline, time management, accuracy, fact-checking, and critical thinking; they disagreed…
Descriptors: Editing, Proofreading, Job Skills, Job Training
Download full textSimon Mlundi – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
Writing skills are the most difficult language skills for students, especially those students with English as a Second Language (ESL) and as an English Foreign Language (EFL) in various academic institutions. This situation has made most college students fail to write effective academic works. This study assessed the effectiveness of the Editing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Law Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fiona Richards; Nigel Harwood – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2024
This article presents a research-based stakeholder tool informed by a study of the various types of changes proofreaders may make when proofreading a student text. Whilst the tool can be used to advise higher education students, (non-)professional proofreaders/editors, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lecturers, writing centre tutors, and…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Writing Evaluation, Revision (Written Composition), English for Academic Purposes
Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2023
Various forms of proofreading of student writing take place in university contexts. Sometimes writers pay freelance proofreaders to edit their texts before submission for assessment; sometimes more informal arrangements take place, where friends, family, or coursemates proofread. Such arrangements raise ethical questions for universities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Ethics, Writing Assignments
Lukas Matati Josua – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
Studying towards a postgraduate qualification is viewed as a booster that may usher employees towards management positions. We have found common mistakes in research proposals for master's degree students in a department at the University of Namibia. Our presentation shows the shortcomings in the research proposals of postgraduate students and…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Universities, Plagiarism
Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2018
There has been much interest recently in researching the changes editors, supervisors, and other language brokers make to the writing of L2 researchers who are attempting to publish in English. However, studies focused on the presubmission proofreading of students' university essays are rarer. In this study of student proofreading, 14 UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Writing (Composition)
Conrad, Nina – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
Anglosphere universities are a site of growing concern about students' use of professional English language editing and proofreading services for the correction of academic writing. Students' use of such services raises issues of ethics and academic integrity as well as fundamental questions about how value is allotted to the labour involved in…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Higher Education, Guidelines, Editing
Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
Golding, Clinton – Open Review of Educational Research, 2017
In the article, "What examiners do: What thesis students should know", we identified 11 things that thesis examiners do as they read and judge a thesis. But, we left a gap in the research: knowing this, What should thesis students do to write for their examiners? In this article, I fill the gap. The advice for thesis students is: first,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Ludlow, Barbara L.; Dieker, Lisa A.; Powell, Selma – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2014
Professional journals are an integral component of information dissemination and professional development in the field of special education. Peer review of manuscripts submitted for consideration for publication in journals is the cornerstone of the professional review process, providing editors with advice about the value of the information…
Descriptors: Publications, Editing, Peer Evaluation, Proofreading
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hua, Youjia; Ford, Jeremy W.; Neil, Katelyn M. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
In this study we investigated an editing strategy to develop effective proofreading skills (i.e., mechanics and substantive revisions) within electronic texts through an experimental pre- and posttest group design with random assignment. Fifteen college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities participated in this investigation.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, College Students, Educational Technology
Kotamjani, Sedigheh Shakib; Razavi, Ommehoney Fazel; Hussin, Habsah – English Language Teaching, 2017
Some studies have reported the positive outcome of using concordancers and dictionaries in (ESL) context. This study aims to examine how an EFL writer consulted with concordancers and dictionaries along with Google and Google Scholar when engaging in academic writing at university level. The researcher investigated a non-English-major postgraduate…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Suzanne Woods-Groves; Youjia Hua; William J. Therrien; Erica R. Kaldenberg; Rudia W. Kihura; Jo M. Hendrickson – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
This study examined the efficacy of the EDIT Strategy on proofreading skills of postsecondary individuals who attended a campus-based college program for students with developmental disabilities. A random assignment to treatment or control groups and a pre- and posttest with maintenance follow-up design were employed. The EDIT Strategy was taught…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, College Students, Editing, Proofreading
Higbee, Jeanne L.; Schultz, Jennifer L.; Sanford, Thomas – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2011
A previous study conducted a decade ago determined that there can be considerable disagreement--not only between students and faculty, but also among students and among faculty--regarding behaviors that constitute cheating. This article reports the results of a research study that replicated the student survey administered for the previous study,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cheating, Student Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
Enos, Marcella F. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2010
This article summarizes a dissertation study designed to determine the effectiveness of instructional interventions that focus on proofreading and editing skills of first-year college students enrolled in business communication courses. The study used a pretest-posttest quasiexperimental control group design and collected data from 56 participants…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Proofreading, Business Communication
