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Rodríguez, Celestino; Areces, Débora; García, Trinidad; Cueli, Marisol; Loew, Stephen J.; González-Castro, Paloma – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2015
In this review, we discuss the historic evolution of ADHD research up until the present, and explain the actual theoretical models of writing in relation to ADHD and attention. Given the characterization of writing as a recursive process, and in order to show its relationship with attention disorders, examples of applicable writing models are also…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Writing Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Comorbidity
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Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Theories of writing development posit several component skills as necessary to the writing process. This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on the correlation between these proposed component skills and writing outcomes. Specifically, in this study, we examine the bivariate relationships between handwriting fluency, spelling, reading, and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes
Kent, Shawn; Wanzek, Jeanne – Grantee Submission, 2016
Theories of writing development posit several component skills as necessary to the writing process. This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on the correlation between these proposed component skills and writing outcomes. Specifically, this study examines the bivariate relationship of handwriting fluency, spelling, reading, and oral language…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes
Fetters, Mary Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to develop a deeper understanding of the perceptions of students, faculty, administration, and visiting Southern authors of the effectiveness of Chattanooga State Community College's Writers Work program for encouraging composition student writing and learning about Southern culture.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Phenomenology, Program Effectiveness, Student Writing Models
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Ryan, Mary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Writing is a complex and learned activity in that it requires us to shape our thoughts into words and texts that are appropriate for the purpose, audience and medium of a variety of communicative forms. Writers must constantly make decisions about how to represent their subject matter and themselves through language. In this way, writing can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Student Writing Models, Educational Strategies
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Zheng, Shigao; Dai, Weiping – Higher Education Studies, 2012
This paper studies and suggests the need for writing instruction by which students can experience writing as a creative process in exploring and communicating meaning. The prewriting activities generate ideas which can encourage a free flow of thoughts and help students discover both what they want to say and how to say it on paper. Through the…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Instruction, College English, Teaching Methods
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Koshewa, Allen – Language Arts, 2011
Donald Graves's early professional books inspired Koshewa to look more deeply into student writing during the 1980s, and to value all phases of the writing process. Graves's perspective on uncovering and celebrating voice elevated Koshewa's writing instruction to a new plane. In this article, he writes about the impact that Donald Graves's work…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Student Writing Models, Writing (Composition)
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Pemberton, Michael A. – Writing Center Journal, 2010
"The Function of Talk in the Writing Conference: A Study of Tutorial Conversation" is, the author thinks, an excellent example of what a well-designed analytical study of conversational narratives can reveal. People in this field have long made the claim--anecdotally, for the most part--that writing center tutors occupy a liminal space between…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Writing (Composition), Conferences (Gatherings)
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Jones, Sarah R. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
Adolescents with learning disabilities need explicit supports to improve their written expression, but those structures and supports are best utilized in an environment that promotes authentic writing resembling the writing students will produce in adult life and work. Classroom blogs may offer special educators an authentic context for writing…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Special Education Teachers
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Medwell, Jane; Strand, Steve; Wray, David – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
Although handwriting is often considered a matter of presentation, a substantial body of international research suggests that the role of handwriting in children's composing has been neglected. Automaticity in handwriting is now seen as of key importance in composing but this proposition is relatively untested in the UK and the assumption has been…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition)
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Bourgeois, Pamela – CEA Forum, 2008
This article addresses the issue of basic writing, demonstrating how one university's basic writing program acts as a steward of writing. The assumption that basic writers only consume resources rather than contribute to academic excellence is rejected. What links the author responses to this issue is a publication of student writing entitled…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Higher Education, College English
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Daniels, Erika – Voices from the Middle, 2007
The "Literacy Cafe," a celebration of genre study and student writing, offers students (and visitors!) a positive environment in which to engage in reading and discussion of writing without self-consciousness or fear of criticism. It works because students learn to recognize writing as a learning tool and a relevant, authentic skill in the real…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Middle School Students, Literary Genres, Writing Instruction
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Wilde, Jack – Voices from the Middle, 1995
Describes three fifth-grade students in the author's school who used humor in their writing assignments. Offers samples of their work and their observations about it. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Humor, Intermediate Grades, Student Attitudes
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Sawyer, Walter C. – Language Arts, 1978
A fifth grade student, who is a successful writer, describes the process she goes through in writing a paper. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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Hammond, Catherine – Language Arts, 1993
Discusses how a professional writer and teacher of writing helps children write better by incorporating specific images taken from their "screens"--the places where they see things in their heads. Presents numerous examples of students' poems. Notes the "screens" can also be used in writing stories or essays. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Imagery, Poetry, Student Writing Models
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