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Investigating Invisible Writing Practices in the Engineering Curriculum Using Practice Architectures
Direct linkGoldsmith, Rosalie; Willey, Keith; Boud, David – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Writing practices are seen to be essential for professional engineers, yet many engineering students and academics struggle with written communication, despite years of interventions to improve student writing. Much has been written about the importance of getting engineering students to write, but there has been a little investigation of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Akinnagbe, Geneviève DeBose – Educational Leadership, 2018
Teacher Geneviève DeBose Akinnagbe discusses her school's--and her own--improvement in the area of writing instruction. While she is a strong believer in teacher-led change, she says the change in this case was mainly the result of the school's becoming more intentional, at an organizational level, about the teaching of writing. The progress truly…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Writing Teachers
Werunga, Robai Nasaba – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Building on existing research on Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD), the current study investigated the collateral effects of social skills prompts on the writing outcomes and problem behavior of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Generalization measures involved the use of video prompts to explore their impact (if…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Emotional Disturbances
Eftekhari, Parastou Afshar – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Scores on a state comprehensive assessment test showed that writing skills of 4th grade students enrolled in a K-8 magnet school in the southeastern part of the United States were below target. The assistant principal of the K-8 magnet school explained that a review of 3-year longitudinal data revealed that the number of students who met…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Elementary School Students
Laura Magalas; Thomas G. Ryan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
The Young Writers Program (YWP) is the latest writing workshop to be developed for the classroom. It challenges students to choose a topic and write a novel-length piece based on that topic, without worrying about spelling or grammar. While the foundation of this philosophy is solid, the support and structure of the Young Writers Program website…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Web Sites, Novels
Gutzmer, Cara; Wilder, Phillip – Voices from the Middle, 2012
If we listen to them, the words of our students can provide a road map for instructional responses that meet their diverse literacy needs. In this article, Cara Gutzmer, a middle school literacy coach, and Phil Wilder, a teacher collaborator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discuss how a responsive teaching framework guided their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Processes, Poetry, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedFox, Mem – Voices from the Middle, 1995
Discusses lighthearted writing, much of which has a serious intent as well as two highly desirable qualities: writer satisfaction and reader-appeal. Offers examples of all sorts of lighthearted writing including lighthearted writing from the classroom. (SR)
Descriptors: Humor, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Writing Improvement
Vanden Akker, Sherri L. – 1991
A student was able to overcome flatness in his writing when he focused on the process of writing rather than the product. The student's draft of an essay about a symbol the student found meaningful contained spelling and grammatical errors and was also "flat." The essay had no apparent thesis, demonstrated lack of success in issues of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Student Writing Models, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedTchudi, Susan; Estrem, Heidi; Hanlon, Patti-Anne – English Journal, 1997
Uses six students' writing to detail classroom revision techniques that have students write alternative sections of their essays, generate new aspects of their topics, and see other possibilities in their work. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition), Student Writing Models
Peer reviewedMaguire, Frank – Clearing House, 1989
Presents 11 strategies writing teachers can use to alleviate writing apprehension and to encourage student writers to feel confident about revealing their thoughts in writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing Apprehension
Corden, Roy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The purpose of this collaborative schools-university study was to investigate how the explicit instruction of literary devices during designated literacy sessions could improve the quality of children's narrative writing. A guiding question for the study was: Can children's writing can be enhanced by teachers drawing attention to the literary…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing (Composition), Children
Moffett, James – Quarterly of the National Writing Project and the Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, 1995
Reprints a 1980 article from this journal on an experience the author had as a college freshman that aptly illustrates the adage, "Write what you know." Updates the article with an Afterword commenting on the earlier writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Student Writing Models, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedHeath, Jay A.; Kreitzer, Jack – Clearing House, 1993
Describes a professional writer's successful one-month residency for reluctant junior-high writers. (SR)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions, Student Writing Models
Peer reviewedEggemeier, Judith K. – Primary Voices K-6, 1999
Discusses techniques and lessons used to assist students in reading with a writer's eye, observing the world with a writer's eye, and developing the craft of writing, including the writer's notebook; grabber leads; show, not tell; unforgettable language; and voice. Notes that developing a community of writers is essential to the successful use of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Student Writing Models
Peer reviewedBingen, Mark J. – English Journal, 2000
Describes a very successful writing assignment the author uses with his high school English students, in which students write about a letter of the alphabet. Notes that this assignment grants freedom for exploration and voice, the raw material for shaping and can be used to teach everything from the writing of poetry to essays for college…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Language Arts, Student Writing Models
