NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Flores-Ferrés, Magdalena; van Weijen, Daphne; Osorio-Olave, Gabriela; Palacios-Bianchi, Magdalena; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Written Communication, 2024
The Chilean curriculum for writing education includes five paradigms: "cultural," "macro-linguistic," "micro-linguistic," "procedural," and "communicative." The implementation of such a poly-paradigmatic curriculum can occur in multiple ways. Therefore, we analyzed classroom practices with two…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Smith, Kenneth J. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Research suggests that experts and beginners use qualitatively different writing processes when given the same text to write. Throughout their writing, experts tend to create a network of executive, structural, and content problems that they continually refine and coordinate as they bring the text to fruition. Novices, in contrast, tend to focus…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Writing Processes, Elementary Education, Writing Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kirkpatrick, Lori C.; Klein, Perry D. – Learning and Instruction, 2009
The aim of this study was to improve 7th- and 8th-grade students' (N = 83) compare-contrast reports when writing from sources. An instructional unit was designed and implemented for this purpose. It focused on increasing students' knowledge of compare-contrast text structure and on having students memorize and use a table to plan the structure of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Text Structure, Grade 7, Grade 8