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Katt Blackwell-Starnes – Thresholds in Education, 2025
This paper examines the use of ChatGPT as an educational tool to teach writing and revision in a first-semester writing course in Fall 2023 at a regional university. The course used ChatGPT as a classroom model to show students how to ethically use generative AI as part of their writing and revision process. One-on-one conferences about student…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Writing Instruction
Anderson, Stacey Stanfield; Klompien, Kathleen; Vose, Kim – Composition Studies, 2020
English 299 is a two-unit credit/no credit elective, capped at fifteen students per section, intended to help first year composition students become more effective editors of their own writing. The class provides a hands-on environment to help students with sentence-level editing since the writing center on campus traditionally focuses on more…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College English, College Freshmen, Editing
Leack, Ryan David – Composition Forum, 2019
This article explores the "scope," "foundation," and "application" of autoethnography in first-year composition and critical thinking classrooms. I broaden autoethnography's scope from Mary Louise Pratt's focus on colonial power dynamics to engage rhetoric, discourse, ideology, and materiality at large. I argue that…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Freshman Composition
Jankens, Adrienne – Composition Forum, 2019
Positioned within our field's work on supporting transfer of writing-related knowledge through careful course design, this article describes the development of a pedagogical intervention designed to help students identify knowledge gaps and pose questions about rhetoric and genre. Below, I tell the story of a 2012 teacher research study that…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Rhetoric, Essays, Freshman Composition
Vetter, Matthew A.; Moroz, Oksana – Composition Studies, 2019
Indiana University of Pennsylvania's (IUP) course catalogue describes English 101: Composition I as a first-year writing course in which students use a variety of resources--including but not limited to memory, observation, critical reading and viewing, analysis, and reflection--and a focus on writing process to create projects in a variety of…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Course Descriptions, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing
Medvedeva, Maria; Recuber, Timothy – College Teaching, 2016
An essay's motive or research problem consists of the rhetorical moves illuminating why that essay matters--what puzzling elements of a primary source it resolves, which contradictions in the data it explains, or what gaps in the literature it fills. This article invites college instructors to dedicate some of their classroom time to teaching…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College English, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition)
Schwartz, Joni – Adult Learning, 2015
Mass incarceration in America is a moral, economic, and societal crisis with serious implications for many men of color and high school non-completers who are incarcerated at proportionally higher rates than Whites or college graduates. For the formerly incarcerated, engagement in adult learning, whether high school equivalency (HSE) or college,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Inquiry, Outreach Programs, Institutionalized Persons
Moore, Jessie L.; Pyne, Kimberly B.; Patch, Paula – Composition Forum, 2013
The College Writing/Elon Academy summer partnership at Elon University offers a program model for supporting underrepresented students' transition to college. While the modified section of a required first-year writing course has some limitations, the summer course supports students' development of more complex writing processes and provides…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Freshman Composition, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
Cook, Devan – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Andrea Lunsford and Karen Lunsford conclude "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life: A National Comparative Study," a discussion of their research project exploring patterns of formal grammar and usage error in first-year writing, with an invitation to "conduct a local version of this study." The author was eager to accept their invitation; learning and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Patterns, Freshman Composition, Research Projects
Dirk, Kerry – Composition Forum, 2012
The treatment of a research paper as an isolated utterance within a composition classroom is problematic in that such papers may fail to encourage transfer of writing knowledge. In this essay, I argue that a research paper's failure to work as a utterance situated within a conversation--as critiqued through a framework constructed by Mikhail…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Course Descriptions
Swiencicki, Jill; Fosen, Chris; Burton, Sofie; Gonder, Justin; Wolf, Thia – Liberal Education, 2011
What lasting impact could a required general education writing course have on students' well-being? The authors examined this question in the context of the California State University- Chico Town Hall Meeting, a campus event sponsored jointly by the Academic Writing Program and the First-Year Experience Program from 2006 to 2009. In the Town…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Teaching Methods, Academic Discourse, Writing Instruction
Remler, Nancy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
While many freshman composition textbooks offer cursory instruction on how to conduct field research, very little information exists on teaching undergraduates field research methods. Such instruction often occurs during graduate school. However, in order to become polished writers and researchers, and to see firsthand how research enhances…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Freshman Composition, Interviews, Nonverbal Communication
Matthews, Debra H. – CEA Forum, 2007
Much of Debra Matthews' teaching experience has been with apprehensive writers, and while teaching freshman English to primarily nontraditional students, she found that the students were often nervous about the writing process. The students acknowledged that they felt threatened by the evaluation process, and some were intimidated by the writing…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Nontraditional Students, Writing Processes, Student Journals
Chandler, Sally – Composition Studies, 2007
The study of emotion as discourse not only eliminates objections about the individual psychology of students, it also connects researchers to methods that go beyond reflection and self-reporting. In this article, the author pursues these ideas within the context of a college composition course where students experienced a particularly high level…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Freshman Composition, Psychological Studies, Writing Processes
Strasma, Kip – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2009
Peer-response remains a central process in first-year composition; faculty can make it effective and efficient by "spotlighting"--designing the process as digital, emergent, and distributive. In this article, the author first elaborates on his own use of peer-response terminology. He favors "peer-response" as the descriptive term for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Freshman Composition, Peer Evaluation, Educational Technology