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McAlear, Rob; Pedretti, Mark – Composition Studies, 2016
Process-based composition pedagogy has ignored the question of "doneness": the criteria used to decide when a piece of writing is complete. This article uses survey results from first- and second-year composition courses to challenge common beliefs about how students determine when writing assignments are sufficiently completed. We find…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction
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Stockall, Nancy; Villar Cole, Corinna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This qualitative research study examines how 12 undergraduate second-language learners understood the concept of citations in academic writing. The following questions guided this study: What are the participants' beliefs about citing research? How do students conceive the role and function of citations in their writing assignments? How do they…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Citations (References)
Gallagher, Kelly – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how…
Descriptors: Mentors, Writing Skills, English Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Fernsten, Linda A.; Reda, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This article shares strategies that educators can use to assist students in meeting the challenges of academic writing more effectively. In order to foreground an understanding of struggling writers, the text begins with a brief review of composition theory and history related to basic writers and identity. It goes on to examine classroom…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse
Beaupre, Barbara – 2000
The assumption for many college professors is that academic discourse is a hallmark of the educated, a form of communication accepted and expected both academically and professionally. Typically, academic discourse entails the conventions of a particular discipline's writing form. A writing center tutor and administrator must find ways to teach…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Student Needs, Tutors
Fredericksen, Elaine – 1996
Composition teachers and researchers recognize the difficulty young writers, especially females, face as they enter postsecondary education and attempt to learn the language of the academy. Addressing academic audiences "takes confidence and authority, qualities that are often challenged in women because of their historical exclusion from and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Females, Feminism, Freshman Composition
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Li, Linda Y. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
Focused freewriting, broadly defined as writing without stopping and editing about a specific topic, has been viewed and used as a powerful tool for developing student writing in a wide spectrum of educational contexts. This study aimed to further explore the use of focused freewriting in the context of promoting students' academic skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Academic Discourse
Evans, Karin – 1996
In a Purdue University English 101 class, students were told to identify an audience outside the classroom for each paper they wrote. The central challenge to composition teachers is preserving elements valued in teaching academic writing in the context of ill-defined problems to be addressed outside the classroom. Most useful for instructors…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Freshman Composition, Higher Education