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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Argumentative writing"”.
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Peer Interaction, Cognition And Argumentative Writing (Key Stage 2 Children)
Argumentative writing, which has become a National Curriculum requirement, is recognised to be a cognitively taxing undertaking at Key Stage 2 This dissertation describes an experiment using a multiple research approach to investigate 10-year-olds in peer groups of three, interacting in preparation …
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An Analysis of the Argumentative Writing Skills of Academically Underprepared College Students
… was conducted to extend what is known about the writing skills of low achieving postsecondary students. Using an archival data set, a sample of argumentative essays written by community college developmental (remedial) education students was analyzed. Scoring procedures for argumentation …
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Using Discourse to Improve the Quality of Student Talk and Historical Argumentative Writing
… that thinking to others, both verbally and in writing. However, such disciplinary thinking does not come natural to students (Wineburg, 1991). Thus, students require instruction in disciplinary thinking to learn its complexities and nuances. Once students can engage in disciplinary thinking, …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school graduates as a part of the obligatory Unified State Examination (USE) within the contrastive rhetoric approach. Never before has any argumentative writing test spec been adapted with a …
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What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating processes in an L2 integrated argumentative writing test
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning: Evaluation of the Use of Scientific Inquiry to Support Argumentative Writing in the Middle School Science Classroom
… students’ use of argument, particularly in writing, to communicate their knowledge and scientific findings and to develop an understanding of scientific practice. The purpose of this teacher action research study is to evaluate the influence of inquiry-based argumentative writing exercises, …
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Argumentative essays written by native speakers of Chinese and English: A study in contrastive rhetoric
Of the modes of writing required at American universities, argumentative writing may be the most important and the most difficult to master. Contrastive rhetoricians have claimed its mastery can be especially difficult for international students, who bring to English rhetorical conventions that do …
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Small-group Student Talk Before Individual Writing in Chinese Tertiary English-as-a-foreign-language Writing Classrooms: Nature, Effects, and Perceptions
Recent research in L2 addressing student talk for writing development has documented much on student talk in pairs/groups during collaborative writing tasks, or in peer feedback interactions for revision after writing. Comparatively, less is known about using student talk as prewriting discussions …
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Promoting Conceptual Development through Mediation: An Investigation of Gal’perin’s Concept-Based Instruction of Genre in Chinese EFL Writing Classrooms
… The present study explored the use of CBI in L2 writing by conceptualizing L2 writing development as a process of internalizing the concept of genre, a complex yet often oversimplified concept in L2 writing instruction. Adopting a mixed methods approach, this research investigated both the effect …
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Chinese Students’ Metacognitive Experiences in Learning to Write in English as a Foreign Language (EFL): Metacognitive Growth and Writing Development
… and metacognitive strategies in the field of EFL writing has flourished, little is known about the effect of learners’ metacognitive experiences on their learning of EFL writing. To fill such an important gap, this study had three main focuses: 1) investigating Chinese students’ metacognitive …