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Wrigley, Stuart – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This article discusses and challenges the increasing use of plagiarism detection services such as Turnitin and Grammarly by students, arguing that the increasingly online nature of composition is having a profound effect on student composition processes. This dependence on the Internet is leading to a strategy I term 'de-plagiarism', in which…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Essays, Writing Processes, Computer Software
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Neumann, Michelle M. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2018
Mothers play a key role in scaffolding children's writing using traditional tools, such as paper and pencil. However, little is known about how mothers scaffold young children's writing using touch-screen tablets (e.g., iPads) and the associations between maternal scaffolding and emergent literacy. Mother-child dyads (N = 47; M child…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mothers, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
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Datchuk, Shawn M.; Dembek, Ginny A. – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2018
Difficulties with two critical transcription skills, handwriting and spelling, can hinder acquisition and use of simple sentences during writing for elementary students. This preliminary investigation used a framework of data-based individualization to adapt and study effects of a multi-component intervention designed to teach simple sentence…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intervention, Spelling, Handwriting
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Limpo, Teresa; Alves, Rui A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Writing proficiency is heavily based on acquisition and development of self-regulation and transcription skills. The present study examined the effects of combining transcription training with a self-regulation intervention (self-regulated strategy development [SRSD]) in Grade 2 (ages 7-8). Forty-three students receiving self-regulation plus…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 2, Spelling, Phonemes
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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Adkins, Mary – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The impact of supplemental handwriting and spelling instruction on learning to write was examined in an experimental study with first grade students who were not acquiring these skills as rapidly as their classmates. Thirty students (16 boys, 14 girls) were randomly assigned to a handwriting and spelling instructional condition or a phonological…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Spelling Instruction, Phonological Awareness, Accuracy
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Lifshitz, Nirit; Har-Zvi, Shirley – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Proper acquisition of handwriting is required for success in school. This study compared the effects of two writing readiness interventions, "Traffic Light" and "Word and Sound" on kindergartners' handwriting quality, speed and positive reactions to writing. Handwriting readiness training for kindergarten children is…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
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Guan, Connie Qun; Wang, Ye – American Annals of the Deaf, 2017
Comparing deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children with their hearing peers in learning Chinese, the study tested the lexical quality hypothesis (Perfetti, 1992, 2007), which asserts the importance of building orthographic, phonological, and semantic connections in high-quality lexical representations. DHH children and hearing peers matched on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Semantics
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Graham, Steve; Fishman, Evan J.; Reid, Robert; Hebert, Michael – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2016
Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) frequently experience significant difficulty mastering basic academic skills. This meta-analysis focuses on one specific potential area of learning difficulties for these students: namely, writing. To identify the extent and depth of the potential writing challenges faced by students…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Meta Analysis, Academic Ability
Myers, Dorothy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study surveyed current third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in two small school districts in the southeast. One school district has initiated a technology initiative in its elementary schools. The other school district involved in the study incorporates technology but does not have a specified technology initiative. This dissertation was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Handwriting, Writing Instruction
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Roth, Kate; Guinee, Kathleen – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This study examined the effects of Interactive Writing, a dynamic approach to writing instruction designed specifically for young children, on the independent writing of first graders enrolled in urban schools in a large metropolitan area. Children in the Interactive Writing condition (N = 49) showed greater growth on measures of independent…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Grade 1, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Shimel, Kristin; Candler, Catherine; Neville-Smith, Marsha – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2009
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of cursive handwriting programs in improving letter legibility and form in third-grade students without identified handwriting problems. Four months into the school year, cursive handwriting was assessed for a sample of convenience of 50 third-grade students. Subsequently, students received…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Program Effectiveness
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Liu, Yuan-Chen; Lee, Wan-Chun; Huang, Tzu-Hua; Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
This research investigates students' performance while writing Chinese essays using an interactive online writing system. Participants include students from two seventh-grade classes of a junior high school in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. The experimental group uses the conditioned writing interactive online system, while the control group receives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Connelly, Vincent; Gee, Deborah; Walsh, Elinor – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: It is well established that handwriting fluency constrains writing quality by limiting resources for higher order processes such as planning and reviewing. According to the "simple view of writing" then slow keyboarding speed should hinder the quality of keyboarded essay compositions in the same way that slow handwriting…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Word Processing, Scripts, Childrens Writing
Vacc, Nancy N. – 1985
Differences between letters of four adolescent mildly mentally handicapped (MMH) students written by hand and those composed on a microcomputer using a word processor were examined in terms of amount of time a subject spent completing a letter, the length of a completed letter, the number of words written per unit of time needed to complete a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Handwriting, Letters (Correspondence)
Duvall, Betty – 1985
A study was conducted to establish a process for evaluating the difficulty of different handwritten letter forms. A criterion for calculating difficulty scores was delineated and four sets of letter forms were evaluated: manuscript, cursive, italic, and D'Nealian. Using the criterion, small letters were given a score of difficulty, the sum of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cursive Writing, Handwriting, Manuscript Writing (Handlettering)
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