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Download full textShi, Weixuan; Han, Jikun – English Language Teaching, 2014
Writing, as an advanced model of output, not only conveys the subject but also realizes the communication between readers and writers. Metadiscourse can help writers arrange and organize the discourse to influence readers' understanding of the text and their attitude towards its content. Taking writing samples of College English Test Band 4…
Descriptors: Writing Research, College English, Student Writing Models, Meta Analysis
Peer reviewedFrank, Laura A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1992
Explores fifth graders' audience awareness when they compose and revise an original text for two audiences (a good third grade reader and an experienced adult reader) in a realistic transactional writing task. Finds that they successfully revised texts to address expectations of both audiences but were more successful for the third grade readers.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Revision (Written Composition)
Smith, Michael W. – 1991
To understand literature, it is necessary for a reader to make connections between the text of the literary work and the text of the reader's life. Student autobiographical writing before reading can be used to enhance students' ability to make such connections. Autobiographical writing helps students apply relevant life experience that might not…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Klompien, Kathleen – 2001
While research papers may hold unique challenges for all writers, they are especially daunting for "less experienced" writers because these students often come to college without ever having written a research paper. A study examined several research papers written by students who took part in the Summer Bridge program at California…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Plagiarism, Research Papers (Students)
Peer reviewedSullivan, Patricia – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1990
Studies the visual markers which students employ in writing descriptive and instructional text. Applies the guidelines approach, design decisions approach, and the information/reader model approach. Reports that beginning technical writing majors used fewer illustrations and visual markers than did technical majors. Suggests that the results may…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Student Writing Models
Jarvey, Marya; McKeough, Anne – 2003
A study compared two approaches to teaching 38 grade 4 students in Canada to write trickster tales. By integrating understandings from cognitive and neo-Piagetian theory into instructional method, a novel approach to writing instruction was created. The compositions of children taught via this method were compared to those of students who…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
Collins, Norma, Comp.; Smith, Carl, Ed. – 1990
Originally developed as part of a project for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on expressive writing is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes an overview of the project; a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
