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Direct linkLorimer Leonard, Rebecca; Bruce, Shanti; Vinyard, Deirdre – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This article reports on a cross-institutional, mixed-methods research study designed to gather data on first year writers' language backgrounds at three North American universities. Researchers administered a language survey to 1,870 first year writing students and led follow-up focus groups with 32 participants. Researchers utilized three methods…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Writing Instruction, College Freshmen, Case Studies
Herrington, Anne J.; Stassen, Martha L. A. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
In fall 2010, the University of Massachusetts Amherst instituted a new upper-division General Education requirement, the Integrative Experience (IE), designed to help students integrate the various components of their undergraduate experience and reflect upon their learning and development as a result of those experiences, both key dimensions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Required Courses
Download full textBifuh-Ambe, Elizabeth – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
Writing is a complex, recursive and difficult process that requires strategic decision-making across multiple domains (Graham, 2006; Pritchard & Honeycutt, 2006). Students are expected to use this process to communicate with a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes. Modelling and providing effective instruction is critical, especially…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Hazlett, Lisa A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2011
Compulsory education in America arguably originated with Massachusetts's legislative acts of 1642, 1647, and 1648; the 1642 act compelled education of children. Best known is the colorfully named Old Deluder Satan Law of 1647, famously declaring towns with populations of 50 must hire a reading and writing teacher, and those holding 100 requiring a…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational History, Writing Teachers, Elementary Education
Danielewicz, Jane; Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Contract grading has achieved some prominence in our field as a practice associated with critical pedagogy. In this context we describe a hybrid grading contract where students earn a course grade of B based not on our evaluation of their writing quality but solely on their completion of the specified activities. The contract lists activities…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Critical Theory, Grading, Instructional Improvement
Biggs, Susan Connell; Hodgson, Kevin; Penniman, Bruce M. – National Writing Project (NJ1), 2008
Between 1999 and 2003, the Western Massachusetts Writing Project experienced a series of changes that made it question whether it could survive as a writing project site. The convergence of retirement, unexpected death, and withdrawal of long-term financial support forced the existing leadership to develop a process to look deeply into the work of…
Descriptors: Internet, Inquiry, Program Development, Change Strategies
