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Fulford, Amanda – Educational Theory, 2016
In this paper Amanda Fulford addresses the issue of student writing in the university, and explores how the increasing dominance of outcome-driven modes of learning and assessment is changing the understanding of what it is to write, what is expected of students in their writing, and how academic writing should best be supported. The starting…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Essays
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Olmanson, Justin; Kennett, Katrina; Magnifico, Alecia; McCarthey, Sarah; Searsmith, Duane; Cope, Bill; Kalantzis, Mary – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
Once writers complete a first draft, they are often encouraged to evaluate their writing and prioritize what to revise. Yet, this process can be both daunting and difficult. This study looks at how students used a semantic concept mapping tool to re-present the content and organization of their initial draft of an informational text. We examine…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Editing, Writing Evaluation, Concept Mapping
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Murray, Rowena – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
The writing activities involved in research are not fully articulated in discussions of academic work. In this context, academics say they have to disengage from other tasks in order to write, which raises fundamental questions about the place of writing in academic work. A study designed to find out more about this disengagement showed that it…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Noninstructional Responsibility, Attention, Writing Processes
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McLennan, Deanna Marie Pecaski – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
This article discusses why educators might consider writing and submitting papers for consideration of publication in professional journals and magazines. A general overview of teachers' challenges to the writing process and corresponding responses is provided.
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Teachers, Periodicals, Writing Processes
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McCarty, Ryan – Composition Studies, 2018
This article presents the experiences of six bilingual Spanish-English students transitioning from high school to college, highlighting the ways they theorize translation and its relationship to writing and learning. As increased attention to theories of translingualism has established translation as deeply embedded in writing processes, and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Zhang, Jianhua – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
This study aims to examine the effect of strategic planning training on cohesion in English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing. We recruited 62 Chinese learners of English and divided them evenly into experimental and control groups. We trained the experimental group in 4 sessions to master strategic planning. Then we selected 4…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cárdenas Curiel, Lucía; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer's workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher's mediation in teaching, we examined the affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have for emergent bilingual students' writing processes. In this case study, we focused on a writing sequence…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multiple Literacies, Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy
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Ives, Lindsey; Gokhale, Jayendra S.; Barott, William C.; Perez, Michael V. – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This article evaluates the use of biweekly deadlines called "Sprints" to scaffold the development of conference papers in graduate-level courses in econometric modeling and electrical engineering through analysis of faculty assessment reports, observation notes, and transcripts of two audio-recorded class sessions. Data were analyzed to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Graduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Conference Papers
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Bergman, Matt – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2019
Universities across the United States are grappling with both funding and enrollment pressures and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Decreasing state funding coupled with lower birth rates of the recent past (Grawe, 2018) are forcing colleges and universities to rethink enrollment and retention strategies. Amid the push to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Networks, Evaluation Methods, Universities
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Craig, Jacob W. – Composition Forum, 2019
Extending research on the relationships between materiality and process, this article examines how writers' preferences for particular materials--places, technologies, objects--develop over time. With a specific focus on how materials affect writers and how writers are affected by their writing tasks, this article considers how writers' histories…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Correlation, Preferences, Authors
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Powell, Jessica Sarah; Sinclair, Meredith N. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
This paper explores a pedagogical approach, autoethnography as praxis; a method to support white pre-service teachers in their process toward becoming accomplices for racial justice. In this qualitative study, students wrote three drafts of their autoethnography throughout a semester as part of a course assignment. They analyzed their lived…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Preservice Teachers, Ethnography
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Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
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Seifert, Tami – International Journal of Learning Technology, 2020
This paper reports the use of Google Docs in a master's degree program as an online tool for collaborative co-construction of knowledge and self-assessment. Participants included eighty graduate teachers in a master's degree. The study employed a mixed method approach. Among the tools applied were a questionnaire, focus group discussions,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Collaborative Writing, Writing Skills, Academic Language
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Prasetyawati, Octana Ayu; Ardi, Priyatno – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
Engaging students in writing is a challenge for language teachers. Nowadays, some students have low engagement in writing classes because the genres of writing inside the classes are disconnected from students' real lives. Since today's students are close to social media, integrating it into writing activities can promote student engagement in the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Learning Processes, Social Media, Writing (Composition)
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Doody, Sara; McDonnell, Maggie; Reid, Erin; Marshall, Sarah C. – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
This collaborative autoethnography explores how a doctoral peer writing group (PWG) has become an important means of fostering well-being among the authors, who are four doctoral scholars. Focusing on how writing in doctoral education can act as a barrier to well-being, defined as feeling part of a "community," feeling…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Well Being, Sense of Community, Motivation
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