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Rachel Schechter; Rumeysa Yucel – Online Submission, 2024
The insufficient focus on developing writing instruction in education is a significant problem. Despite the crucial link between writing and reading skills and their impact on academic and life success, there is a notable lack of emphasis on writing in schools. Writing A-Z is a digital-first program that helps teachers establish a writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Many EFL students have difficulty generating ideas for writing topics. Writing instructors tend to select topics that are too abstract, repetitive, uninteresting, vague, too broad or unfamiliar. To help students generate ideas for writing topics, the present study suggests the integration of participation goals in writing instruction.…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Writing Skills
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this article was to look at some of the issues students have with reading and interpreting their instructors' post-secondary writing prompts. Every student, who attends a post-secondary institution, will at some point in their university/college career be asked to submit a writing assignment of some kind. The most common assignment…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Prompting
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2017
Learning how to teach writing is a skill just as learning how to write is a skill. Without a dedicated composition course in Education faculties pre-service teachers are not getting the training they require to be effective teachers of writing. In this report, a case is made for why teachers have to be more aware of how students learn to write and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Instruction, Direct Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education
Soiferman, Lisa Karen – Online Submission, 2017
The importance of direct explicit instruction in secondary schools has been shown to improve student learning outcomes across the curriculum. The question then becomes one of whether adapting direct explicit instruction in post-secondary institutions would have the same impact on student grades. Graham and Perin (2007) identified eleven elements…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Writing Strategies
Kheradmand Saadi, Zahra – Online Submission, 2016
For Vygotsky, language is a cultural-psychological concept emerged from social interactions and is applied for higher cognitive functions such as thinking, meaning making, and knowledge construction. In this study, a sociocultural perspective was applied to analyze the language produced by 40 sophomore Iranian EFL learners during dialogic…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Discourse Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Classification
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2015
Writing is a very important skill that should be mastered properly by university students, especially pre-service language teachers (e.g. EFL student teachers). In order to present their ideas efficiently in the context of their academic study, they have to be trained well on how to write meaningful pieces (e.g. essays, academic reports,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Writing Instruction, Student Teachers
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2014
The presentation will show the types of online writing tasks that can be integrated in online courses, online discussion forums, blogs, wikis…etc as a supplement to in-class writing instruction. The types of online writing tasks include the following: Tasks that focus on specific writing skills; tasks that provide free writing activities; tasks…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Online Courses, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Hassan Seifeddin, Ahmed; Zakareya Ahmed, Samah; Yahia Mohammed Ebrahim, Eman – Online Submission, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the effect of a program based on English digital stories on second-year preparatory pupils' writing performance and reflective thinking. Two writing performance tests (pretest and posttest) as well as a reflective thinking test were prepared by the researchers. Two 2nd-year intact classes from El Sadat Prep School…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Writing Instruction, Reflection
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
Many EFL teachers spend a lot of time marking students' written assignments and correcting their spelling, grammatical, punctuation, organization and idea generation errors in detail. The more students make mistakes, the more meticulously they mark and correct mistakes. Despite meticulous error correction, students continue to make the same…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Feedback (Response)
Soiferman, Lisa Karen – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by first-year students as they negotiated the transition from the writing environment of high school to the writing environment of university. The research for the dissertation was undertaken using a mixed-method explanatory design. This yielded a description of students'…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Barriers, Writing (Composition), Mixed Methods Research
Webb, Adam – Online Submission, 2010
While literacy autobiographies, citizenship autobiographies, and family narratives are common first writing assignments in the freshmen composition classroom, they are usually followed by some kind of research proposal, annotated bibliography, or research essay. While there is nothing wrong with literacy and citizenship autobiographies or family…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Writing Assignments, Writing Exercises, Grading
Webb, Adam – Online Submission, 2009
Current approaches and trends in writing pedagogy within the composition classroom focus on the development of students' identities through personal, cultural, or disciplinary processes. By employing writing assignments and activities that concentrate on developing certain traits or characteristics of students' identities has led to a "crisis"…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Carroll, Stacy; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2010
In the county schools, students are assessed every nine weeks based on a writing prompt using a rubric supplied by the county, but the students are often taught using Writer's Workshop. This action research attempted to determine if Writer's Workshop and the use of writing prompts have different effects on first graders' writing ability and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Attitudes, Action Research, Writing Tests
Abu Shawish, Jaber I.; Abdelraheem, Mohammad Atea – Online Submission, 2010
A considerable number of research and reports attempted to tackle the different aspects of writing apprehension. The current research dealt with the topic quantitatively and qualitatively in an attempt to know why Palestinian university students majoring in English feel anxious and stressed when they are asked to write. The possible remedies for…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Open Universities, Writing Apprehension, Writing Instruction
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