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Direct linkWalls, Helen; Johnston, Michael – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2023
In the present study, the effects of teachers' beliefs and practices about writing pedagogy on students' progress were investigated in the context of the New Zealand primary school system. A total of 626 teachers completed a survey on their beliefs and practices. Principal component analysis of beliefs isolated three dimensions, reflecting…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Johnson, E Marcia – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
As doctoral enrolments have soared in many countries around the world, considerable attention has been devoted to how an increasingly diverse candidature can succeed in thesis writing. Along with supervisory guidance during the student's research project, various publications have emerged to help students with thesis writing requirements. However,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Wei, John; Carter, Susan; Laurs, Deborah – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
The first time of many significant encounters is the most intense, raising awkwardness, anxiety and hope. This article presents data from doctoral students (n = 80) who described the first time that they submitted writing to their supervisor and received feedback. The first writing/feedback exchange is an initiation into the cultures of academia.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Ethnography, Writing Instruction, Supervisors
Eyre, Jan – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2022
This article focuses on the 2019 National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) assessment of student ability in writing. It begins with an overview of the study and its results, then turns to students' use of planning strategies to support their writing. Drawing on research on the association between planning and achievement in writing,…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement, Correlation, Writing Processes
Fitzpatrick, Erin; Schrodt, Katie; Kissel, Brian; Gilbert, Suze – Teachers College Record, 2021
Context: Writing is an agentive act. Despite drastic improvements over the past few decades in writing instruction and the push for sharing with authentic audiences, the majority of writing students do is still for the teacher. These practices are at odds with those who advocate for classrooms that are culturally relevant, culturally responsive,…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Writing Processes, Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Workshops
Jowsey, T.; Corter, A.; Thompson, A. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This study explores the views of doctoral students and supervisors about two doctoral thesis-writing models: the traditional monograph and the thesis that includes published articles in its body. Doctoral theses in biological and health sciences usually follow one of these two common models. Doctoral theses with publications are increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Journal Articles
Johnson, E. Marcia – Open Review of Educational Research, 2018
Over the past few decades, the number of people enrolled in doctoral study has increased dramatically across the world. In practical terms, this has meant that universities now receive increasingly diverse students with regard to ethnicity, age, language, culture, and background preparedness for higher degree study. Students can, and often do,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Xu, Linlin; Teng, Lin Sophie; Cai, Jinting – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
Despite the burgeoning research on feedback, we know little about the ways in which students engage with supervisory feedback in doctoral writing -- a crucial element for understanding students' feedback uptake. To address this issue, this study uses text analysis and semi-structured interviews to explore Chinese international doctoral students'…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Students, Writing (Composition), Learner Engagement
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Parr, Judy; Lindgren, Eva; Kaufman, Douglas – Curriculum Journal, 2018
In this article, researchers in the field of early writing identify underlying beliefs and values about writing and learning to write for the beginning years of formal schooling in four jurisdictions: the American state of Connecticut, New Zealand, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Sweden, as reflected in the respective curricula and standards…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Beginning Writing
Carter, Susan; Kumar, Vijay – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Doctoral supervisors aim for two goals. One is a strong thesis, timely in submission. The other is the fully fledged independent researcher who is able to write about research clearly within an epistemologically accepted framework. Feedback and feedforward on writing should address both goals. However, in many institutions, supervisors are under…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervisory Methods
Graham, Steve; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This paper presents a special issue on writing around the globe. Researchers from across the world describe writing practices in their country using a wide variety of methodology. The papers show that while there are many similarities in writing instruction from one country to the next, there are also many differences. As a result, the authors…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Download full textJohnson, E. Marcia – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper reports on the results of a two-year study into threshold concepts (TCs) in doctoral writing. The findings informed the development of a thinking to write strategy (the 4x4) that has been implemented as part of a pan-university doctoral writing programme at a New Zealand university.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
Peters, Michael A.; Jandric, Petar; Irwin, Ruth; Locke, Kirsten; Devine, Nesta; Heraud, Richard; Gibbons, Andrew; Besley, Tina; White, Jayne; Forster, Daniella; Jackson, Liz; Grierson, Elizabeth; Mika, Carl; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Brighouse, Susanne; Arndt, Sonja; Lazaroiu, George; Mihaila, Ramona; Legg, Catherine; Benade, Leon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication.…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Organizations (Groups), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing
Wolfersberger, Mark – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article argues that task representation should be considered as part of the construct of classroom-based academic writing. Task representation is a process that writers move through when creating a unique mental model of the requirements for each new writing task they encounter. Writers' task representations evolve throughout the composing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reading, Comprehension, Persuasive Discourse
Chang, Chiungying Evelyn; Strauss, Pat – Language and Education, 2010
This paper seeks to highlight the issue of learner agency in the supervisory relationship. Although this study is confined to the perceptions of a small group of Chinese-speaking international students, this issue is not one peculiar to them. Dealing with status imbalances in this relationship is a challenge that faces all students regardless of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Difficulty Level, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Writing Processes
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