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Jamie Costley; Han Zhang; Matthew Courtney; Galina Shulgina; Matthew Baldwin; Mik Fanguy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
While the use of collaborative peer editing is widespread in some online learning contexts, little is known about how constituent editing behaviours impact student writing quality when using shared online documents as the mediating tool. Therefore, the present study (n = 176) examines the effects of English language learners' peer editing…
Descriptors: Editing, Peer Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yavuz, Devrim Adam – Teaching Sociology, 2020
The instruction of classical sociological theory at Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) underwent significant transformation to make it more activity-based and better aligned with departmental learning goals. The article focuses on the effectiveness of an "edited book" project that came of this endeavor, where…
Descriptors: Books, Editing, Writing (Composition), Information Literacy
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Durst, Pearce – Composition Forum, 2015
This article advances film as worthy of rhetorical inquiry and deserving of more sustained attention in the advanced composition classroom. The first section identifies various approaches to the "language" of film, which can be adopted to navigate the technical, rhetorical, and cultural concerns needed to compose informed multimodal…
Descriptors: Films, Film Study, Writing (Composition), Advanced Courses
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Grünke, Matthias; Leonard-Zabel, Ann Marie – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current research involving composition writing with respect to students experiencing difficulties. It responds to the fact that composition writing is a largely neglected area in education and research. This paper will review the following: (a) the reasons why writing competence is so vitally…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Writing Skills, Writing Difficulties
Gomes da Silva, Mirella – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Computer-mediated collaborative writing has drawn attention from second language researchers and instructors for a few decades, and due to recent developments in Web 2.0 technologies, the possibilities of wikis for collaborative writing have increased enormously. However, few studies have explored the nature of wiki collaboration and interaction,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Fan; Litman, Diane – Grantee Submission, 2014
Writers usually need iterations of revisions and edits during their writings. To better understand the process of rewriting, we need to know what has changed be-tween the revisions. Prior work mainly focuses on detecting corrections within sentences, which is at the level of words or phrases. This paper proposes to detect revision changes at the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition), Writing Assignments
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Al Murshidi, Ghadah; Al Abd, Kholood – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Writing has always been regarded as playing a prominent role in learning a second language. UAE university writing center provides a key support service within the institution, and as such must find ways to evaluate the impact of the instruction they provide. However, many studies of tutorial effectiveness lack adequate analyses of tutorial…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse
Chatpunnarangsee, Kwanjira – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore ways of incorporating web-based concordancers for the purpose of teaching English collocations. A mixed-methods design utilizing a case study strategy was employed to uncover four specific dimensions of corpus use by twenty-four students in two classroom sections of a writing course at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Worksheets
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Kadavy, Casey; Chuppa-Cornell, Kim – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
At the beginning of each school year, the Languages and Humanities Division at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) meets to discuss first-year composition matters. Faculty leave the workshop renewed by the collaboration and buoyed by the promise and potential of a new semester. Yet, when classes actually begin, faculty may find that they are…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Virtual Classrooms, Librarians, Humanities
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Ruecker, Todd – Composition Studies, 2011
English 1311: Expository English Composition is the first semester course in a two-semester first-year composition (FYC) sequence. Both ENG 1311 and its second-semester counterpart, ENG 1312, are required for all students unless they have transfer credit covering this requirement or place out of one or both of the courses via the College-Level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Higher Education
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Fessakis, Georgios; Zoumpatianou, Maria – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2012
This paper is a literature review report concerning educational uses of Wikipedia in the first 10 years of its existence. The aim of the work is the tracing and the presentation of published and validated educational applications of Wikipedia in a manner that could inform learning design by teachers or researchers. For the review, 24 scientific…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Literature Reviews
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Hylton, Jaime; Thurston, Stephen; Houston, Linda S.; Barr, Suzann Welty; Sommers, Jeff – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Presents five activities: (1) transforming--requires that a student put aside a first draft and create a new piece on the same subject in a different genre; (2) meaningless words--encourages deleting unnecessary words; (3) group work; (4) definitions quiz; and (5) audience, synthesis, and the thematic analysis--considering these three when writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Editing, English Instruction, Two Year Colleges
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Lawson, Tracy Reilly; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
Using multiple baseline designs, we studied the effects of having seven 9th graders edit their papers until a naive reader accomplished a drawing assignment during writer immersion (communication in writing only). During Experiment I, students received no feedback in the first phase, teacher editing feedback in phase 2, and writer immersion plus…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, Editing, Grade 9
Griffith, Davelyn – Teaching Pre K-8, 1997
Examines a six-step "lesson plan" for teaching writing. Details the pairing of eighth-grade students with first graders about whom they will write a story, the collection of information about the main character, the composition and revision of the stories, and the sharing of the final product with the students participating in the project. (AA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing
Schmitt, Lothar M.; Christianson, Kiel T. – 1999
Pedagogical features and implementation of a UNIX-based management system (UNIEM) designed to support the instructor in teaching English as a second language using a network of workstations are described. The application discussed here is for teaching English composition to students at the University of Aizu (Japan). UNIEM is constructed to assist…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction