Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Source
| Intervention in School and… | 2 |
| Educational Philosophy and… | 1 |
| Journal of Basic Writing | 1 |
| Journal of Special Education… | 1 |
| Journal of the Scholarship of… | 1 |
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
| Higher Education | 3 |
| Postsecondary Education | 3 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Practitioners | 2 |
| Teachers | 2 |
| Researchers | 1 |
| Students | 1 |
Location
| China (Beijing) | 1 |
| Florida | 1 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textBartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
Direct linkPeters, 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
Evmenova, Anya S.; Regan, Kelley – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Many students with learning disabilities (LD) and emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) struggle with the writing process. Technology has shown to be effective in supporting prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing of written products. This article explains the use of one technology-based graphic organizer with embedded…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Writing Improvement
O'Brien, Josephine – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
The paper discusses the impact of developing a consciousness-raising approach in error correction at the sentence level to improve students' proofreading ability. Learners of English in a foreign language environment often rely on translation as a composing tool and while this may act as a scaffold and provide some support, it frequently leads to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Proofreading, Grammar, Error Correction
Morgan, M.C. – 1999
Proofreading can be tedious and boring, especially if it is approached as correcting errors. But proofreading is not correcting errors so much as reviewing the paper for ideas and for readability. Sometimes classmates can help a student proofread--they can help assess the draft, propose some alternative solutions, and make some choices. This paper…
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Proofreading, Writing Improvement
Trimble, John R. – 2000
Taking the mystery out of how skilled writers think, this book shares some practical tips on how to make prose more readable. It also examines some common questions about punctuation, quoting, usage issues, and stylistic taboos. The book is geared to those writers who have already been through the "textbook mill and who now hunger for helpful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Usage, Proofreading, Readability
Shaughnessy, Michael F. – 1996
The process of writing a term paper requires certain necessary steps. This guide offers specific and practical directions for writing a comprehensive term paper on any subject and addresses the three main concerns: the procuring of information; format and organization of the paper; and reading and proofreading the paper. Step-by-step examples are…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Proofreading
Brand, Alice G. – 1998
At the intersection of teaching and learning, this guide is intended to introduce and update disciplinary faculty on contemporary writing principles and pedagogy. In addition, it is designed to: alert faculty to the ways in which effective writing helps students not only show what they have learned but also to learn, generate, and communicate…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Area Writing, Editing, Higher Education
Moxley, Joseph M., Ed. – 1992
This book of author-contributed chapters on academic writing grew out of workshops on scholarly writing taught at the University of South Florida. The chapters in part I review the working habits of successful academic authors. The chapters in part II analyze the genres of academic writing. Part III focuses on revision and editing of manuscripts.…
Descriptors: Faculty Publishing, Higher Education, Professional Development, Proofreading
Peer reviewedDalton, Bridget; And Others – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1990
Two fourth grade boys with learning disabilities learned to use the Bank Street Writer III word processing and spelling checker program to edit spelling errors. Both boys learned to manage the spell-checking process and increased the spelling accuracy of their edited texts. Differences in their learning processes and the tool's limitations are…
Descriptors: Editing, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMarchisan, Marti L.; Alber, Sheila R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2001
This article presents practical and specific strategies for helping students with writing difficulties become successful in each of the following stages of the writing process: prewriting, writing, revising, and publishing. Recommendations include using visual images, modeling prewriting procedures, providing word banks, providing a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching, Proofreading
Greenberg, Eileen – 1997
A program was developed and implemented for use with college freshmen at a community college in southeast Florida whose entrance examination scores fell below the acceptable range for admission into a regular English classroom. These students lacked an adequate background in basic English language skills, had an insufficient understanding of the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Community Colleges, English Instruction
