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Download full textGrant Eckstein; Ying Suet Michelle Lung; Natasha Gillette – TESL-EJ, 2025
Students are often encouraged to proofread their writing by reading it aloud. Presumably, this will allow writers to correct local errors. Yet even though this strategy may be effective for native speakers, there is little empirical evidence of its benefit among second language writers. Therefore, we wondered how many errors second language…
Descriptors: Proofreading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkRanta Butarbutar – Cogent Education, 2024
Scaffolding is a teaching strategy that provides temporary support and guidance to learners as they develop their skills. Through online teaching and scaffolding clinics for novice writers, this narrative qualitative study aimed to assist students and novice writers in improving their scientific paper writing skills. For data collection, this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Kalianne L. Neumann; Theodore J. Kopcha – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2019
This paper presents a design case that describes the design, development, and user experience testing of a Google Docs revision add-on. The add-on is an instructional, peer review tool intended to help students distinguish surface-level feedback from text-based feedback in order to develop their revision task schema. Eleven secondary teachers…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Feedback (Response), Web 2.0 Technologies, Peer Evaluation
Harwood, Nigel – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
L2 student writers in UK universities often seek the services of a 'proofreader' before submitting work for assessment, and the proliferation of freelance proofreaders and online proofreading agencies has led to debates about the ethics of the proofreading of student writing in publications such as "Times Higher Education". This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Proofreading, Writing (Composition)
Aseeri, Fatimah Mohammed M. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The present study aimed to address the extent to which faulty members and students at the department of English language at Najran University practice using the ways of written corrective feedback. The questionnaire, as the main study instrument was used to collect data while the descriptive analytical approach was used to analyze these collected…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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)
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
Sevcikova, Beata Lewis – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present research offers an assessment of the online open source tools used in the L2 academic writing, teaching, and learning environment. As fairly little research has been conducted on how to best use online automated proofreaders for educational purposes, the objective of this study is to examine the potential of such online tools. Unlike…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse
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
Casinghino, Carl – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
Teaching advanced video production is an art that requires great sensitivity to the process of providing feedback that helps students to learn and grow. Some students experience difficulty in developing narrative sequences or cause-and-effect strings of motion picture sequences. But when students learn to work collaboratively through the revision…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Media Literacy, Video Technology, Cooperative Learning
Harwood, Nigel; Austin, Liz; Macaulay, Rowena – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
As part of a larger interview-based study of the beliefs, practices and experiences of 16 proofreaders of student writing in a university setting, this article reports informants' conceptualisations of their role. "Proofreading" is defined for the purposes of this research as "third-party interventions (that entail some level of written…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Proofreading, Role
Harwood, Nigel; Austin, Liz; Macaulay, Rowena – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
Drawing on an interview-based study of the beliefs, practices, and experiences of 16 proofreaders of student writing at undergraduate and/or graduate level in a university setting, this paper focuses on the ethical concerns informants associate with the proofreading act. "Proofreading" is defined for the purposes of this research as "third-party…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Integrity, Ethics, Interviews
Carduner, Jessie – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Foreign language teachers have long been frustrated by learners' written errors. Traditional approaches to the problem--grammar instruction and error feedback--when used alone are not effective. Explicit instruction in proofreading provides a missing link. When instruction in proofreading is embedded in grammar instruction and when learners use…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Proofreading, Writing (Composition), Grammar
Chaney, Barbara A.; Ingraham, Laura R. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Accounting educators struggle with ways to incorporate the development of critical thinking and communication skills into the curriculum. Case analysis is one tool for developing these skills. We examine whether students' case analysis scores improve as a result of participation in peer grading and peer review. We find that students improve their…
Descriptors: Accounting, Peer Evaluation, Grading, Proofreading
