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Howard, Sarah K.; Khosronejad, Maryam; Calvo, Rafael A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
To be fully prepared for the professional workplace, Engineering students need to be able to effectively communicate. However, there has been a growing concern in the field about students' preparedness for this aspect of their future work. It is argued that online writing tools, to engage numbers of students in the writing process, can support…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Content Area Writing
Teruggi, Lilia A.; Gutiérrez-Cáceres, Rafaela – Deafness & Education International, 2016
In this study we explored the revision process and strategies implemented by deaf and hearing students who attend the same bilingual school context (LIS and Italian). For that we analysed and compared the types and quality of revisions made by deaf and hearing participants to their first draft of a narrative text ("Frog, Where Are You?")…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Deafness, Comparative Analysis, Italian
Teruggi, Lilia A.; Gutiérrez-Cáceres, Rafaela – Reading Psychology, 2015
Most studies on narrative competence have focused on monolingual subjects, and there are very few studies which address this issue in bilingual subjects dealing with two language systems. In the present case study we analyzed and compared the textual and narrative written skills of three deaf and three hearing adolescents attending eighth grade at…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Deafness, Comparative Analysis, Bilingualism
Wu, Greg Chung-Hsien – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
This pilot study aims at integrating a socio-pragmatic concept, Cooperative Principles, into an experimental writing project on the genres of comparison and contrast. It reports on a six-week study of five undergraduates voluntarily recruited in a university located in central Taiwan. In surveying their writing momentum before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
Kovach, Jamison V.; Miley, Michelle; Ramos, Miguel A. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2012
Communication skills are a significant contributor to an individual's success in the workplace. Unfortunately, students often have trouble expressing their ideas in written form and the poor quality of students' written work often impedes the learning process. This pilot study investigates the use of online writing studios within a quality…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Pilot Projects, Writing Improvement, Electronic Learning
Li, Yongyan; Casanave, Christine Pearson – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
In this paper we report a case study of two first-year students at a university in Hong Kong doing the same writing assignment that required the use of sources. We explore the students' understanding of plagiarism, their strategies for composing, the similarity between their texts and source texts, and the lecturer's assessment of their work. The…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Introductory Courses, Plagiarism, Difficulty Level
Ramirez, Helen; Jones, Don – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2013
This study examined the effectiveness of teaching methods used with a second language reading and writing unit. This investigation addressed discrepancies between assessment scores in the four communicative language skill areas of students in beginning-level Spanish classes at a suburban middle school. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi – Exceptional Children, 2010
Students learned a strategy for planning, writing, and evaluating compare-contrast essays. Instruction followed the principles of self-regulated strategy development, which aims to improve knowledge about writing, strategic writing processes, self-regulation, and motivation. Six adolescent students, 3 with learning disabilities in writing and 3…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Writing Processes
Carroll, Stacy; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2010
In the county schools, students are assessed every nine weeks based on a writing prompt using a rubric supplied by the county, but the students are often taught using Writer's Workshop. This action research attempted to determine if Writer's Workshop and the use of writing prompts have different effects on first graders' writing ability and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Attitudes, Action Research, Writing Tests
Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio; Fidalgo, Raquel – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2008
The aim of the study was to compare two samples of sixth-grade Spanish primary students on coordination of writing processes measured by online or direct retrospection techniques and writing products. One group was comprised of 81 students with learning disabilities (LD), the other was made up by 80 typically achieving students. The results showed…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Writing Processes
Keetley, Elizabeth D. – 1995
A study determined the effectiveness of using a computer word processor as compared to the traditional paper-and-pencil method for process story writing. Students in a first-grade classroom in the Mark Gardiner Hoyle Elementary School located in Swansea, Massachusetts, were randomly divided into a control group of 12 students and an experimental…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness

Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Valdes, Rosa; Garnier, Helen – Elementary School Journal, 2002
Investigated relation of the quality of third graders' writing assignments and written instructor feedback to quality of subsequent student work. Found that amount and type of teacher feedback predicted a small, significant proportion of variance in the quality of content, organization, and mechanics of final drafts. Initial writing quality…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Reed, W. Michael; Vandett, Nancy M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Compares the quality and syntactic complexity of 2 types of essays written by 44 college freshmen in a basic writing course. Essays dealing with group-phenomenon events (intensification) had more words per clause, but received lower quality scores than essays dealing with individually experienced events (initiation). (PAA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Shaw, Edward L. – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1994
Investigates the ability of third-grade students to generate essays either by hand or with a word processing program. Indicates that the length and quality of the handwritten essays were superior to the computer-generated ones, suggesting that third-grade students were not as efficient in using a word processing program to generate essays as they…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Rowley, Kurt; Meyer, Nick – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
A Computer Tutor for Writers (CTW) was designed to provide procedural facilitation to high school students while they learn the skills and knowledge associated with composition writing. Four previous year-long studies helped identify how to facilitate specific elements of the writing process. The CTW was designed to combine lessons learned from…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Achievement Gains, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments