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Benita Charla Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation contributes to the growing body of scholarship in rhetoric and composition responding to calls for explicitly anti-racist teaching and research practices. Titular examples of the field's widespread commitment to this work include official "Position Statements" by our flagship professional organizations, like the…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Social Justice, Racism
Rose, Shirley K., Ed.; Weiser, Irwin, Ed. – 1999
This collection of essays discusses writing program administrators' (WPAs') research. The essays pose several questions to characterize WPAs' research practices: "What is WPA research? What characterizes WPA research and the sites of WPA inquiry?"; and "What values guide WPA research?" The 14 chapters are divided into 2 parts, "Writing Program…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Writing Assignments
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Knudson, Ruth E. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Investigates the effects of highly structured versus less structured lessons on student narrative writing. Finds that the less structured lessons resulted in superior student writing and the highly structured lessons resulted in mechanical, fill-in-the-blank responses. (MG)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Process Approach (Writing)