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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Expository writing"”.
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Genre exploration: alternatives to expository writing in seventh grade life science
… of this thesis is to explore the use of genre writing as an alternative to commonly used expository writing in the seventh grade life science classroom. My research includes student surveys and educator interviews. I surveyed 44 seventh grade science students using a Likert scale. The …
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A rationale for a correspondence version of a first-year university expository writing course.
My task here was to prepare Expository Writing (University of Windsor course #26-100) as a distance education course, which included developing a comprehensive study guide to take the place of classroom instruction (see Appendix A). This rationale justifies the approach I take in the study guide …
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A task-oriented learning group approach to teaching descriptive-narrative-expository writing to eleventh-grade students
… a task-oriented learning group approach to writing or a traditional, one-teacher, whole-class approach would be more effective in (1) teaching basic descriptive-narrative-expository writing skills to eleventh grade English students, and (2) producing a positive attitude change toward writing …
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Cohesive ties in the expository writing of adult Korean ESL subjects and native speakers of English
… as defined by Halliday and Hasan (1976) in the expository prose of university-level Korean ESL subjects and native English speakers. Twenty-five essays were collected from each language group and analyzed for cohesive ties using Halliday and Hasan's categorization of cohesive devices. The …
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The impact of an online collaboration tool on first-year community college students’ learning of expository writing
This exploratory study examined the reading-writing connection and the effects of online collaboration through the use of OneNote on improving the expository writing performance of first-year community college students. The intervention was a 10-week integrated reading and writing instructional …
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Follow-Up of College Students with a History of Developmental Speech Disorders
… syllabification, nonsense word repetition, and expository writing. Subjects also responded to questions assessing student adjustment and academic performance. Results revealed that the RE subjects performed comparably to controls on all of the experimental and academic/adjustment measures (p < …
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AVID Program Graduates: Negotiating the First Year of College
… especially in the areas of critical reading and expository writing. Some participants, not accustomed to the academic reading and writing standards of the university, used a trial and error method to attempt to meet the requirements and did not consistently execute the strategies learned in AVID. …
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Towards Evidence-Based Practices in Mathematics Instruction: Investigating the Impact of Writing on Student Ability to Solve Mathematics Problems
… in grades spanning kindergarten through college: Writing to Learn in the Mathematics Classroom.</p><p>A sample of 31 undergraduate students, while engaged in learning three mathematics topics, were assigned to one of three treatment groups to measure the impact of two forms of writing on math …