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R. Yohanes Radjaban; Eko Setyo Humanika – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Problems in developing writing often comes from creative processes in developing ideas to write. Outlines are often recommended as a tool to help students organize their thoughts and structure their writing. This study aims to find out students' perceptions and the challenges the students encountered when writing an exposition text using provided…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Expository Writing
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Gabas, Clariebelle; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Copp, Stefanie B.; Campbell, Mary – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
This study described the features of writing instruction in widely used kindergarten English Language Arts programs and examined their alignment with evidence-based, best-practice guidelines. Three popular curricula were selected for analyses: Reading Wonders, Journeys, and Reading Street. Our coding of teacher manuals focused on instructional…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Writing Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, English Instruction
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McKnight, Lucinda – English in Education, 2021
Conflicting ways to understand the nature of paragraphs, including their purpose and structure, have been central to composition theory for many decades. Yet English teachers across countries are experiencing ongoing pressures to mandate a specific paragraph template. This article traces the contentious, binary history of paragraph theory and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sentences, English Teachers
Annamary Consalvo, Editor; Ann D. David, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing instruction is a particular challenge because there is no singular, linear solution to teaching students to write well. This book approaches writing as a wicked problem that takes place in complicated contexts. Through both scholarly research and teacher reflection, it examines ELA classrooms and the experiences of writing teachers to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Finch, Mary – English in Australia, 2021
Hattie and Timperley's (2007) model of effective feedback, widely used in teacher professional development, provides an easily-applied framework for thinking about the information contained in feedback. However, the model simplifies a complex phenomenon shaped in practice by interpersonal, disciplinary and institutional aspects. Examining the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Faculty Development
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Maura Sincoff – English Journal, 2016
This article examines relationships in the writing process and offers some strategies to address student needs on both the cognitive and affective domains.
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Student Needs, Cognitive Processes
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Griffiths, Pauline – English in Australia, 2018
The ancient literary form of commonplace books offers rich possibilities to students and teachers of English in Australian schools in the 21st century. By briefly tracing early uses of commonplace books and examining contemporary approaches to the teaching of writing, this paper re-imagines the 15th century commonplace book as a personal learning…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Books
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Koupf, Danielle – Composition Forum, 2017
Tinkering is a longstanding material practice that has gained popularity in recent years as a learning strategy at numerous schools, camps, and makerspaces. This article seeks to establish in composition pedagogy tinkering's playful, exploratory ethos by introducing a practice called "critical-creative tinkering." In critical-creative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Literature, Writing Instruction
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Beach, Richard; Caraballo, Limarys – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: Unlike formalist and functional approaches to literacy and teaching writing, a languaging theory approach centers on the dynamic and interpersonal nature of writing. The purpose of this study was to determine students' ability to engage in explicit reflection about their languaging actions in response to their personal narrative writing…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Grade 12, High School Students
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Andrew Rejan – English Journal, 2017
The author explores the tension between the social and cognitive definition of "argument" in the Common Core's theoretical rationale and the structural approach to argument reflected in the exemplars of student writing, evaluating the implications of these inconsistencies for the high school English classroom.
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, High School Students, English Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Nicole Boudreau Smith – English Journal, 2017
Despite calls to action, writing pedagogy in the English classroom remains outdated, and caustic partisanship among theorists may be to blame. The author proposes a "principled approach" to the teaching of writing, combining the best elements of verified instructional methods to generate six components ensuring student growth.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Writing Processes
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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Copping, Adrian – Education 3-13, 2018
This paper explores writing pedagogy in the primary classroom and connections between children thinking creatively and their achievement in writing. Initially 'continuing professional development' for teachers, I designed and facilitated a two-day writing workshop with a class of children around the theme of a Victorian murder mystery. This was…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops
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Cook, Mike P.; Sams, Brandon L. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2018
The authors present research findings from a collective case study (n=5) conducted in a multimodal composition course for pre-service English teachers. Researchers studied how a course focused on how multimodal composition influenced pre-service teachers' identities as writers and their stances on literacy instruction. Data consisted of students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Teachers, English Instruction
Casey-Williams, Jonas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The emerging field of creative writing studies has provided new conceptions of creative writing's role within the English discipline. These conceptions focus on the relation of creative writing to composition studies, and there remains a need to reconsider creative writing's relation to literary studies. "Reading for pedagogy"--the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Scholarship, Writing Instruction
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