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Negretti, Raffaella – Written Communication, 2021
What aspects of writing are doctoral students metacognitive about when they write research articles for publication? Contributing to the recent conversation about metacognition in genre pedagogy, this study adopts a qualitative approach to illustrate what students have in common, across disciplines and levels of expertise, and the dynamic…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing for Publication, Doctoral Students, Writing Instruction
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Escott, Sharnee; McCrudden, Matthew T. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
We investigated writing performance and knowledge of writing before and after a persuasive writing intervention for ethnically diverse elementary school students in a low socio-economic community in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). We used a one-group pre-post design. The participants (n = 24) were year 5 and 6 students (ages 9-11) from the same…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Ethnic Groups, Student Diversity, Writing Instruction
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Wang, Yumin; Xie, Qin – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Discourse competence is an essential component of communicative competence and central to the mastery of academic writing. This article reports a three-tiered diagnostic assessment of two English as a foreign language (EFL) student writers' discourse competence in terms of textual features, composing strategies, and knowledge about academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Diagnostic Tests