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Vetter, Matthew A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Research in rhetoric and writing has found that Wikipedia-based education allows for direct and transparent observation of practices and concepts related to writing process, research, social collaboration, and digital rhetoric while also providing opportunities for authentic writing situations. However, much of this literature has been focused on…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Writing Processes
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Hu, Xiao; Cheong, Christy Weng-Lam; Chu, Samuel Kai-Wah – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
TRACT This study develops a framework for analyzing student comments in Wikis of group writing to inform learning assessment. It first drew on the literature to develop a framework consisting of three modules measuring student interaction, meaning construction and thinking development in the writing process. Inservice teachers were interviewed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sharp, Laurie A.; Whaley, Brigette – Adult Learning, 2018
Online learning has become an established and customary way for adults to learn. Adult educators are challenged with promoting learner engagement through online collaborative teaching practices, such as wiki-based learning experiences. Although much literature was available regarding use of wikis to promote writing processes among adults, little…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Online Courses, Brainstorming
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Hsu, Hsiu-Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Prior research has shown that EFL learners who wrote collaboratively with partners using wikis improved the content quality and language accuracy of their L2 individual writing more than students who wrote individually. Drawing on the dataset from Hsu and Lo's study, the current study explores the nature of the students' collaborative dialogue…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, English (Second Language)
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Sadaghian, Shirin; Marandi, Susan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
The present study reports on a collaborative writing project initiated and completed by 18 Iranian English language learners enrolled in an online writing course. Using a wiki as the core element of the project, the aim of the course was fostering learner autonomy in online settings based on the collaborative autonomous language learning framework…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study, Collaborative Writing
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Wang, Linnan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019
This case study examined dynamic interactions of two small teams of English as Second Language students when they performed two collaborative argument writing tasks in asynchronous and synchronous web-based contexts. The two teams exhibited different interaction patterns when switching between contexts. These patterns were identified in terms of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Instruction
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Cho, Moon-Heum; Lim, Seongmi – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Although wikis have been widely adopted to support collaborative writing in undergraduate classrooms, educators remain concerned about the level of student participation. Using regulation theories to design interventions in the form of activities, we examined their effects on collaborative writing on wikis. Results demonstrate that with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Collaborative Writing, Editing, Web Sites
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Portier, Christine – Reading Horizons, 2014
This paper examined grades 5 and 6 students' participation in wikis while writing reports on social studies topics. An analysis of eight wikis showed that students represented meanings they had constructed about their topics by engaging in knowledge telling practices (e.g., introducing, stating, or repeating information or an idea and developing…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Reading, Reading Instruction
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Chin, Chee Kuen; Gong, Cheng; Tay, Boon Pei – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2015
This paper reports on the effects of using wiki-based process writing in Singapore's Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) scenarios. A group of 32 Secondary 1 (Seventh Grade) students ("Students") received various forms of online scaffolding at different steps of the writing process over two years. A whole set of teaching materials on 45…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Chinese
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Pifarre, Manoli; Fisher, Ros – Language and Education, 2011
Understanding how best to support immature writers in the development of their understanding of the writing process is an important concern for researchers and teachers. Social technologies have become key features of leisure and work place writing, yet knowledge about how to design educational settings that take full advantage of the affordances…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Computer Software, Revision (Written Composition)
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Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Chen, Wenli; Chai, Ching-Sing; Chin, Chee-Kuen; Gao, Ping – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper outlines an adaptable collaborative writing approach employing a wiki to address the typical weaknesses of young Singaporean Chinese students learning Chinese as second language (L2) in Chinese writing. These students' problems in writing include limited and incorrect use of vocabulary, English-style grammar, badly structured passages,…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Peer Teaching
Wolsey, Thomas DeVere; Grisham, Dana L. – Guilford Publications, 2012
An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Reprography, Instructional Materials