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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
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Jakobs, Eva-Maria; Digmayer, Claas – AILA Review, 2020
This article examines how written feedback is used to support the production of texts for purposes of reuse. The case study refers to an entrepreneur training program at the University of Texas at Austin. In the program, Korean startups are trained in understanding the US market, and developing pitches that convince US investors. They are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Universities
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Boyd, Vic; Wilson, Colin; Smith, Christopher – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
The concepts of 'graduateness' and graduate attributes became contested terrain before COVID-19 destabilised even the most assured of shared learning constructions. Indeed, for those of us immersed in the delivery of work-based learning (WBL), this has long been the case. Promotion of reductive notions of 'skills' acquisition to comply neatly with…
Descriptors: Reflection, Workplace Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition
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Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
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Bergman, Matt – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2019
Universities across the United States are grappling with both funding and enrollment pressures and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Decreasing state funding coupled with lower birth rates of the recent past (Grawe, 2018) are forcing colleges and universities to rethink enrollment and retention strategies. Amid the push to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Networks, Evaluation Methods, Universities
Silva, Bethany – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Theories of writing process have informed the teaching of writing for the past forty years, providing writing mentors with a language of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing that broadens ways to invite young writers to approach composition. In the past forty years, new technologies for composition have impacted the products,…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Parks, Summer Programs, Qualitative Research
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Edward Comstock; Quentin Wodon – English Journal, 2017
One World Education (OWEd) is a college-ready writing instruction program with the goal to ultimately have students participate in their own discourse communities. This qualitative analysis of One World Education reports on student and teacher impressions of the program by analyzing the results of surveys, informal interviews, and focus groups the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Common Core State Standards, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Balderas, Irais Ramírez; Guillén Cuamatzi, Patricia Maria – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This paper describes college students' writing development process during their foreign language classes throughout a semester. Self and peer correction were implemented to promote error awareness along with the use of an error code and error log in a fifth semester class. The results show that both strategies benefited students' writing skills…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, College Students, Error Correction, Peer Evaluation
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Sheffield, Jenna Pack; Kimme Hea, Amy C. – Composition Forum, 2016
While composition studies researchers have examined the ways social media are impacting our lives inside and outside of the classroom, less attention has been given to the ways in which social media--specifically Social Network Sites (SNSs)--may enhance our own research methods and methodologies by helping to combat research participant attrition…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Research Methodology, Writing Instruction
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Schell, Eileen E. – Composition Forum, 2013
This article provides an analysis of the growing phenomenon of community writing groups for military veterans. Drawing on the scholarship on literacy studies, community literacy, and veterans' writing groups, the author profiles three veterans' writing groups and provides strategies for starting up, conducting, and sustaining such groups. The…
Descriptors: Veterans, Writing (Composition), Literacy, Profiles
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Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2014
This article draws on my experience as an adjunct professor in the Master's program of the Department of Mexican-American Studies at a large public university in California. Seeing my students' struggles with writing, I conceived of a set of practices of writing mentorship anchored by a series of writing workshops held in Summer 2012. In this…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Masters Programs
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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
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Mendelowitz, Belinda; Lazar, Karen – English in Education, 2020
We argue that opening a space for dialogic, imaginative writing in the classroom can create entry points for a culturally responsive writing pedagogy (CRWP). We explore how collaborative writing for a pre-existing community digital platform (FundZa) and audience aids the implementation of CRWP in a creative writing course for South African…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Peer Relationship
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Douglass, April G.; Smith, Dennie L.; Smith, Lana J. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In this article, we explored the effectiveness of peer mentoring of undergraduate education students enrolled in core curriculum, writing-intensive courses. The context for our study was the use of peer mentors in undergraduate education writing-intensive courses. Peer mentors who had previously taken the courses were selected and trained as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Core Curriculum, Writing Assignments
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Anson, Chris M.; Schwegler, Robert A. – College Composition and Communication, 2012
This article describes the nature of eye-tracking technology and its use in the study of discourse processes, particularly reading. It then suggests several areas of research in composition studies, especially at the intersection of writing, reading, and digital media, that can benefit from the use of this technology. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Reading Processes, Writing Processes
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