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Download full textWood, Suzanne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
In the later years of undergraduate study, students read, process, and evaluate primary literature within specific fields of study. Shifting from textbooks to the vast amounts of peer-reviewed current literature can be difficult for students. This article details an innovative approach to helping students successfully make this transition through…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Critical Thinking
Cheng, Shuk Ling – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This paper examines the English grammatical errors and their patterns in the written assignments of a General Education course at City University of Hong Kong. Subjects are 60 local and non-local (exchange) undergraduate students who are all L2 learners with diversified education and disciplinary background (i. e. their major of study) which are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
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
Direct linkMelzer, Dan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2,000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton's multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Audiences, Writing Instruction
Theoret, Julie M.; Luna, Andrea – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
This action research combined qualitative and quantitative techniques to investigate two different types of writing assignments in an introductory undergraduate statistics course. The assignments were written in response to the same set of prompts but in two different ways: homework journal assignments or initial posts to a computer discussion…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Action Research, Statistics, Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedLarson, Richard L. – English Journal, 1992
Argues that a prevalent mistake made by teachers preparing writing curricula and assignments is dividing writing into classes or modes. Suggests alternatives to classifying writing. Envisions writing as a discourse act and assignments as performance of such acts. (HB)
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Modes, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDoughty, Amie A. – Exercise Exchange, 1993
Presents a class activity in which student describe and classify music as an introduction to writing classification essays. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classification, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPurves, A. C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences
Nugent, Susan Monroe, Ed. – The Leaflet, 1985
The seven articles in this journal issue examine the value of developing audience awareness in student writing. Among the topics and concerns expressed are the following: (1) the importance of purpose and audience in designing assignments, (2) the value of classmates regularly discussing each other's papers, (3) the writing development of one…
Descriptors: Assignments, Attitude Change, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education
