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Griffith, Jason J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2018
This article features student perspectives on the role of personal writing in English class. Key findings and quotations are shared from two in-depth interviews with students who wrote exceptional personal essays as part of a narrative nonfiction unit in a 10th grade English class. Participants reported that writing personally generated more…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Writing (Composition), Grade 10, High School Students
Loewe, Drew M. – Composition Studies, 2018
Writing and Rhetoric 3326: Legal Writing is an introduction to legal analysis and writing. It is offered at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, a Holy Cross liberal arts university of approximately 4,300 students, mostly undergraduates. This course focuses on applied rhetoric, and is designed to give undergraduate students experience in…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Writing Strategies
Strangfeld, Jennifer A. – SAGE Open, 2019
This research explores how college students' broader educational histories affect their decisions to plagiarize. While research typically categorizes plagiarism as intentional or unintentional, explanations revealed in interviews of first-generation, working-class, and/or racial minority students suggests that these typologies inadequately capture…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cultural Capital, Writing Skills, Vocabulary
Shadiev, R.; Hwang, W.-Y.; Huang, Y.-M.; Liu, T.-Y. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
We uncovered two critical issues in earlier studies: (a) some studies have shown that mobile learning technology is not beneficial for all students due to complexity of learning environments and student prior knowledge, skills, and experience and (b) familiarity of students with the authentic environments in which they learn using mobile…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Junior High School Students, Language Skills
Yasuda, Sachiko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
This article attempts to apply some systemic functional linguistic (SFL) concepts to task-based language teaching (TBLT) as a means of enriching the fields of learning, teaching, and evaluating writing in an additional language. The purposes are twofold. First, this article presents a concrete example concerning SFL-initiated genre-based tasks,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Assignments, Teaching Methods, College Students
Baer, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing is a critical proficiency for academic and career success, but a significant number of students enter higher education underprepared for the academic writing expectations awaiting them. Due to immense sociocultural barriers, linguistically-diverse college (LDC) students, in particular, may find college writing challenging. Complicated…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, College Readiness
E. Suzanne Ehst; Lewis Caskey – English Journal, 2018
According to the authors, teachers often read about inspiring lessons in which historically marginalized students find their voices through assignments and projects that centralize issues of importance to the student. This article describes the authors' revision of a persuasive writing unit to scaffold not only writing skills but also students'…
Descriptors: Democracy, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Citizen Participation, Minority Group Students
Padron, Thomas C.; Fortune, Mary F.; Spielman, Melany; Tjoei, Sylvie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
The job shadow study measured student career perceptions related to hospitality, recreation and tourism (HRT) and instructional mode (face-to-face (F2F), hybrid, and online). College students self-selecting into three different course modalities taught by the same instructor job shadowed HRT professionals by using Internet and F2F interviews. The…
Descriptors: Job Shadowing, Assignments, Attitude Measures, Careers
Bargate, Karen – Africa Education Review, 2015
Many higher education students embark on a study of accounting under the misconception that accounting requires a high level of proficiency in manipulating data and being good with numbers, while believing that linguistic competence, especially as it relates to writing, is of less importance. This article reports on a study that examined 15…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Qualitative Research, Accounting, Student Experience
Torres, Amada – Independent School, 2016
Spring 2015 marked the end of a three-year pilot program that the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the NAIS Commission on Accreditation sponsored on school use of the High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE), created and administered by Indiana University. To better understand the student experience, HSSSE…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Student Surveys, Private Schools
Waner, Lisa Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students moving from high school writing to college writing are, from a sociocultural perspective, transitioning from one "community of practice" to another, from one "Discourse" to another (Gee, 1992; Wenger, 1998). This process can be difficult, not only for basic writers (Bartholomae, 1985; Shaughnessy, 1977) but also for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Communities of Practice, Student Experience

Rooney, Theresa – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2000
First years students' experiences and knowledge about research paper writing were studied to investigate how strongly the process writing movement has influenced instructional practice, and how appropriately students have been prepared for their college experience. Finds that many of the students arrived at college without the experience of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Writing, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Shull, Ellen – 1998
When she began teaching, one instructor thought everything had to come from her. It took a couple of years before she understood that what students themselves bring to the experience is instrumental--even vital--in helping them connect with what happens in the classroom. In their freshman composition journals, students produced writing based on…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition, Higher Education