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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Free Writing"”.
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The Relationship Between Gender Differences and Writing Topic Choices of Middle School Students
<p>This study was an investigative comparison of free writing topic choices between the genders. For the purposes of this study, twenty male and twenty female subjects were randomly selected from the seventh grade population of a junior high.</p> <p>Over a period of four weeks, ten free writing …
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Effect of sentence-combining instruction on the reading and writing achievement of fifth-grade children in a suburban school district
… instruction on the reading comprehension and writing maturity of fifth-grade children. The treatment groups were comprised of 25 fifth-grade children in the experimental group and 25 fifth graders in the control group. The students were randomly assigned to treatment groups from two …
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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands
… of brands of varying status. Study 1 used a free-writing questionnaire to collect brands. Study 2 used scales to rate participant attitude toward 12 DTC ads. Study 2 showed the the ads for Cymbalta and Plavix made people the most anxious; the ads for Detrol LA and Crestor made people the …
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Effect of Journal Writing on Students' Writing Fluency
<p>his study was an investigation of journal writing and its potential effects on writing fluency among high school students. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant gain in fluency for students who wrote daily in a journal. For the purposes of this study, fluency was defined as the …
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Setting Free the Birds : Heuristic Approaches to the Teaching of Creative Writing at the College Level
Problem. While creative writing classes have been a part of college curricula for nearly fifty years, little has been done to address the difficulties that students have in getting started with writing tasks, particularly in finding a subject and generating raw material at the pre-writing stage for …
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When is it rape? The role of rape and seduction scripts
… and seduction scripts were identified using a free-writing task and a questionnaire. In study 2, an ambiguous sexual scenario was developed. In study 3, script salience was manipulated by labeling the ambiguous scenario as either rape or seduction. This manipulation had little effect on …
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Using digital stories to improve writing skills of students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Writing is an important medium to express one's ideas and needs and is an integral part of the curriculum in secondary schools. Within an accountability system, students are expected to compose narrative, persuasive, and informational essays for state and district level assessments. Students with …
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Working memory, language, motivation and children's early writing: A three‐year longitudinal study
… processes that support the emergence of writing in young children and to ascertain whether working memory, language ability or motivation to write underlined children's early attempts to learn how to write. Working memory, language ability and the emergent writing skills of 30 Irish …
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How the lived experiences of black women can be understood through devised theatre informed by psychophysical actor training: an adaptation of the Tadashi Suzuki actor training technique
… actor training (referred to as Suzuki training), free writing and the body. I use black feminism, cognitive neuroscience and body theory to account for my lived body, which I then use in performance. Practice and theory informed each other in a cyclical manner in accordance with Practice as …
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The Effect Of Direct And Indirect Corrective Feedback Taking A Sociocultural Approach
… two times on two controlled and two times on free writing activities that elicited the use of the past progressive verb form. The study also examined students' reactions to feedback structured in a sociocultural framework through response to six point Likert questionnaires. The study did not …
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Micro- and nano-soft lithography for the fabrication of photonic devices
… inks has been used in conjunction with mask-free ultraviolet direct writing to generate an 8 x 8 GaN LED array. The smallest feature achieved with the mask-free writing set up is 1 μm and the conductive ink was used to form a contact with the n-GaN to enable wire-bonding and characterisation …
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Breath-Body-Self : an exploration of the body as a site for generating images for performance making
… the Sanskrit system of rasa, body mapping and free writing. The study specifically focuses on interrogating the relationship between breath and emotion, and breath and image, in an attempt to make performance that is inspired by a biography of the body. It explores the relationship between …
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The teaching of Zulu as a first language with special reference to the spoken language, the written language and grammar in KwaZulu Junior Secondary Schools
… explore and elaborate their own thoughts through writing. Writing enables the teacher to provide different learning styles and needs. This research revealed that a number of teachers of Zulu are not adequately qualified to teach the subject. Teachers do not receive adequate in-service education on …
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Attentional processing of different types of written L2 input and its relationship with learners' working memory capacity
… aware of the target syntactic construction. A free writing task administered as a part of the pre/post-tests highlighted that only a few learners were able to use the target construction in a meaningful communicative situation after the experiment.
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Student perceptions of the introductory physics laboratory: an exploratory study
… (1) a Forced Choice Response (FCR), and (2) a Free Writing Response (FWR). The FCR data were analyzed by tallying the various choices made for each question, while the FWR data were analyzed using a grounded approach. The PPLQ was administered to 100 first year physics students at the …