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Miriam Jaffe; Erin Kelly; Alicia Williams; Alanna Beroiza; Mark DiGiacomo; Madhav Kafle – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Graduate students writing on their own often struggle with knowledge production and identity conflicts. Conversely, writing with others presents its own set of challenges, as collaborators struggle to define roles and expectations. To systematically foster and teach collaborative writing practices for graduate students, we performed a self study…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Collaborative Writing, Communities of Practice, Socialization
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de Krom, Guus – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
The importance of language in the learning process of students has been studied extensively. However, little attention has been paid to the role language plays in the assessment of student writings. Students and instructors at a liberal arts and sciences college were interviewed to reveal their approaches to written assignments. The aim was to…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Assignments, College Students, College Faculty
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R. Yohanes Radjaban; Eko Setyo Humanika – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Problems in developing writing often comes from creative processes in developing ideas to write. Outlines are often recommended as a tool to help students organize their thoughts and structure their writing. This study aims to find out students' perceptions and the challenges the students encountered when writing an exposition text using provided…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Expository Writing
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Jarvie, Scott; Lockett, Michael – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This paper explores a suite of close writing practices and exercises that ask students to attend closely to language at the level of morpheme, word, line, sentence, or stanza. Close writing aims to move students beyond a conception of reading as mere transaction and technology, while pushing writing pedagogy beyond the development of expository…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies, College Students, Reading Strategies
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Kristen Starkowski – Composition Forum, 2024
Student writers labeled "underprepared" by colleges often have trouble imagining themselves as scholars. Challenges these students routinely encounter include difficulty forming original insights and translating ideas to the page. Although the usage of the term "underprepared" varies across institutional contexts, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Developmental Studies Programs
Steven Dale Acton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated how English language writers in a Chinese university were able to paraphrase following instruction with an online module. Participants were separated into two groups: Group A (Individuals) and Group B (Dyads). They were then trained and assessed in their ability to complete paraphrasing tasks with a pre and posttest.…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Seker, Meral; Karagül, Banu Inan – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2022
Background: The abrupt transition to virtual language learning environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought considerable challenges to educational practices. In the context of foreign/second language learning and teaching, it has become more difficult to ensure that learners have the necessary engagement and motivation levels along with…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Nujood Al-Reshaid; Ahmad I. Alhojailan – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Academic writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) poses challenges for graduate students, particularly in achieving coherence and organization. Thematic choices play a crucial role in guiding readers and ensuring textual cohesion. While Theme selection has been explored in various contexts, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Literary Genres, Writing Strategies, Semantics
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Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Paszek, Joseph; Gorzelsky, Gwen; Hayes, Carol L.; Jones, Edmund – Written Communication, 2020
Using a mixed-methods, multi-institutional design of general education writing courses at four institutions, this study examined genre as a key factor for understanding and promoting writing development. It thus aims to provide empirical validation of decades of theoretical work on and qualitative studies of genre and the nature of genre…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Information Sources, Metacognition, Writing Processes
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Jankens, Adrienne – Composition Forum, 2019
Positioned within our field's work on supporting transfer of writing-related knowledge through careful course design, this article describes the development of a pedagogical intervention designed to help students identify knowledge gaps and pose questions about rhetoric and genre. Below, I tell the story of a 2012 teacher research study that…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Rhetoric, Essays, Freshman Composition
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Yi-Chun Christine Yang – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This study examines the relationship between EFL students' noticing and three written feedback strategies. The convenience sampling method was adopted and four intact classes were randomly assigned into four groups: the model, the error correction, the reformulation, and the control groups. After the completion of picture-cued writing tasks as…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
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Conijn, Rianne; Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto; Knight, Simon; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Van Waes, Luuk; van Zaanen, Menno – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Current writing support tools tend to focus on assessing final or intermediate products, rather than the writing process. However, sensing technologies, such as keystroke logging, can enable provision of automated feedback during, and on aspects of, the writing process. Despite this potential, little is known about the critical indicators that can…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Learning Analytics
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Wang, Linnan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Although regulation has become a critical method to improve the effect of collaborative writing in L2 classes, it is still not clear how the regulation activities influence peer interactions, which is important for improvement of regulation itself. This case study examined dynamic interactions of several small teams of ESL students when they…
Descriptors: Interaction, Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Raymond, Rich – CEA Forum, 2019
To challenge resistance to required literature courses, instructors quiz students regularly on the readings; they also require examinations that ask students to define key terms, to answer background questions focused on authors and dates, to identify key passages by author/title/speaker, and to explain the thematic significance of each quotation.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, College English, Teaching Methods
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Bacabac, Florence Elizabeth – CEA Forum, 2019
Since writing in the disciplines (WID) is focused on learning how to write formal documents of a professional register, it is important to note that each field or discipline has its own style, structure, and format when it comes to writing, and most composition courses seldom facilitate the transfer of these specialized skills in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Students
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