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Khalid Alghamdi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A growing body of academic writing literature has been devoted to studying the rhetorical patterns and language use in diverse academic texts. One of the central goals of these studies is to demystify these texts to acquaint writers, particularly less experienced ones, with the genre conventions. However, Teaching Philosophy Statements (TPS) as a…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Philosophy, Content Analysis, Text Structure
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Lisa 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
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Morphy, Paul; Graham, Steve – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Since its advent word processing has become a common writing tool, providing potential advantages over writing by hand. Word processors permit easy revision, produce legible characters quickly, and may provide additional supports (e.g., spellcheckers, speech recognition). Such advantages should remedy common difficulties among weaker…
Descriptors: Word Processing, Writing (Composition), Writing Difficulties, Text Structure
Eklundh, Kerstin Severinson – 1992
Word processors have been shown to favor a local perspective over a global perspective on the text during writing. Recently, advanced outline processors or "idea processors" have appeared that allow the writer to represent and handle structural aspects of a text so that the writer may compose the text within an outline and experiment with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Language Research
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Piolat, Annie; Roussey, Jean-Yves – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents study results on text revision strategies using a simplified word processor that records movements of linguistic units. Reports that adult subjects used the simultaneous strategy for correcting narrative and local-then-global strategy for correcting description whereas children used the local-then-global strategy for the narrative, but no…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Computer Software, Foreign Countries
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Peterson, Sarah E. – Computers in the Schools, 1993
Examines the effects of word processing on high school seniors' writing and revisions of essay assignments. Length of papers, the impact of topic on the results, the effect of handwriting papers after computer composition, comparison of writing methods over time, and effects of typing ability and computer experience are discussed. (Contains eight…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Expository Writing, Grade 12