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Download full textAlejandro Gómez-Camacho; Juan de-Pablos-Pons; Pilar Colás-Bravo; Jesús Conde-Jiménez – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Instant messaging applications integrated in smartphones have favored the emergence of new digital writing systems, which are characterized by the use of specific spellings called textisms. This study analyses the relationship between the use of textisms and spelling mistakes in academic texts. The methodology applied was descriptive, based on a…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Social Media, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
Direct linkLisa Dush – College Composition and Communication, 2015
This essay explores "content," a word and concept now often associated with writing in fields including marketing, journalism, publishing, and technical communication. I present a definition of content appropriate to writing studies and explore a range of issues and practices that the content metaphor can bring to our professional,…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Meghan A. Sweeney; Maureen McBride – College Composition and Communication, 2015
Using Mariolina Salvatori's "difficulty paper" assignment to explore student experiences when reading, this paper examines basic writing students' difficulties with reading in the composition classroom. The authors argue that examining difficulty can provide an entry point for understanding how students experience the (dis)connections…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Reading Writing Relationship, Student Experience, Reading Assignments
Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David; de Glopper, Kees – Written Communication, 2012
Although keystroke logging promises to provide a valuable tool for writing research, it can often be difficult to relate logs to underlying processes. This article describes the procedures and measures that the authors developed to analyze a sample of 80 keystroke logs, with a view to achieving a better alignment between keystroke-logging measures…
Descriptors: Sentences, Text Structure, Factor Analysis, Classification
Yu, Guoxing – Assessing Writing, 2009
This paper reports the effects of the properties of source texts on summarization. One hundred and fifty-seven undergraduates were asked to write summaries of one of three extended English texts of similar length and readability, but differing in other discoursal features such as lexical diversity and macro-organization. The effects of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedChambliss, Marilyn J.; Garner, Ruth – Written Communication, 1996
Examines persuasive text, first describing it and discussing it with reference to relevant philosophy and rhetoric, and then asking whether it is successful: do written texts change the minds of their readers? Notes that research on designing text to disabuse students of scientific misconceptions points to text features that authors could use to…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Misconceptions, Persuasive Discourse, Reader Response
