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Kosmas Vlachos – Online Learning, 2025
The research paper explores the impact of assignments on enhancing educational technology awareness among postgraduate trainee English language teachers at the Hellenic Open University. The study focused on participants in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) program, specifically those engaging in the 13-week training module…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Educational Technology, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Stephens, Lauren E.; Kim, Gyunghoon; Fogle, E'Lisha V.; Kleinbort, Tori; Duffy, Lauren N.; Powell, Gwynn M.; Olsen, Lisa K.-P.; Kakraba Coleman, Karleisha; Gremillion, J. Paul – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
The quality of undergraduate student writing is cause for concern among academics and industry professionals alike. Because writing apprehension is thought to be a contributing factor in the current deficit of undergraduate writing proficiency, the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) was administered to parks, recreation, and tourism students to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Apprehension, Writing Skills, Writing Achievement
Danielle Bratton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated the efficacy of behavioral skills training (BST) and interteaching in enhancing the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting skills of online graduate learners. Writing skills are foundational to academic success and professional competency, particularly in online graduate programs characterized by learners with…
Descriptors: Applied Behavior Analysis, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
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Gernatt, Joshua; Coberly-Holt, Patricia – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2019
Graduate students face writing anxiety and low self-efficacy regarding writing research papers. Holladay (1981) addressed the negative characteristics of anxiety in graduate students by writing: "They are frightened by a demand for writing competency, they fear evaluation of their writing because they think they will be rated negatively, they…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Research Reports
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Clark, Lindsay C.; Luo, Zijun; Smith, Ashly Bender – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2020
Writing support programs for students in writing-intensive, disciplinary courses are well established and take many forms, including communication centers, web-based skill development programs, and embedded writing consultants. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a program that embeds a writing grader, who assesses only the grammar of…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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Law, Sweety – Higher Education Studies, 2019
Employers have continually indicated that writing instruction is much needed in higher education across all majors. It has become more imperative now than before to better prepare our graduates for professional success in an age of increasing writing necessity, data analytics and reporting, and technical sophistication. Writing assessment in a…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Technology
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Clark, Tony; Yu, Guoxing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This case study explores the challenges that Master's students encounter when learning to write in academic English as part of a UK postgraduate course, after having achieved the required IELTS entry score. Interviews with six Chinese and Japanese learners at different stages of the Master's study revealed more sophisticated writing difficulties…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
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Khartite, Brahim; Zerhouni, Badia – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study investigated the extent to which results of rhetorical comparisons of persuasive essays by Moroccan students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) would provide empirical evidence for Kaplan's (1966) contrastive rhetoric hypothesis. This is especially regarding the fact that EFL students-writing problems are a byproduct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language)
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Achen, Rebecca M. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Improved writing can help students in their academic and professional careers, thus this action research project examined the use of three revision strategies in a graduate course by collecting three sources of data. One-sample t-tests revealed no significant differences across paper scores. However, students indicated rough drafts and rewrites…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition), Writing Evaluation, Peer Evaluation
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Eldaba, Abir Aly; Isbell, Janet Kesterson – Journal of International Students, 2018
In a critical study, researchers explored academic writing experiences of three international female graduate students at a southern U.S. university in order to understand their perspectives of themselves as writers across cultures, their experiences with academic writing, and their coping strategies for academic writing assignments. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Discourse, Coping, Writing (Composition)
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West, Jane – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014
This chapter will describe the evolution of a study of graduate education students' needs as writers. Recognizing that many of my students--who would soon be teaching children to write--struggled with various aspects of writing, I began a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study to examine (a) my students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Scholarship, Instruction
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Wiles, Janine L.; Allen, Ruth E. S.; Butler, Rachael – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
This paper adds to the nascent literature on teaching research methods and what students learn from courses and assessment. Postgraduate students are often confronted with large amounts of reading, and the content of material can be intimidating. Convincing them also to engage critically with readings is even more difficult. We report on a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Writing Skills
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Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Adult Learning, 2016
To help graduate students with academic writing, a college of education at a large university implemented a new service, Writing Support Circles. Based on the results of the first series of this service, we changed its design. The purpose of this article is to share how changes in the design affected these adult learners' writing self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Learning, Academic Discourse, Graduate Students
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Lentz, Paula – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
Employers frequently complain about the state of their employees' writing skills. Much of the current research on this subject explores workplace writing skills from the employer's perspective. However, this article examines workplace writing from the employees' perspective. Specifically, it analyzes MBA students' responses to a course assignment…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Business Communication, Writing Skills, Employee Attitudes
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Defazio, Joseph; Jones, Josette; Tennant, Felisa; Hook, Sara Anne – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
The paper provides case studies of how four faculty members who teach in undergraduate and graduate programs at the Indiana University School of Informatics promote academic literacy throughout the curriculum. The paper describes the writing assignments in several courses, the objectives of these assignments in enhancing the writing skills of…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Skills, Case Studies
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