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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Writing Apprehension"”.
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Writing apprehension and the computer classroom
… was undertaken to determine if computers affect writing apprehension. Both experimental and clinical methodologies were employed in the form of surveys and interviews, respectively. The results indicate that computers have no measurable effect on students' writing apprehension; Instructors' …
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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
… a regimen of sentence-combining would have less apprehension about writing than students who were taught composition in the traditional mode. The subjects were four intact classes of seventh-grade students whose average IQ of 99, who were 12.2 years of age, and who were in classes for students …
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Writing Apprehension: Can an Individualized Approach Help?
… Individualized Language Arts (ILA) program חס writing apprehension. Subjects were 152 eighth graders enrolled in a middle school. The subjects were from five language arts classes and were taught writing during the 1986-87 school year by the Individualized Language Art's (ILA) program. The data …
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Writing Apprehension and Writing Competency: Comparison between Whole Language Students and Skills Orientated Students
Previous research on writing competency and writing apprehension suggests that the lack of one (competency) increases the level of the other (apprehension). The same also seems to be true for the reverse—the greater the competency, the lower the apprehension. Yet, many questions still remain as to …
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Student Perceptions of Teacher Comments: Relationships Between Specific Aspects of Teacher Comments and Writing Apprehension
<p>Writing apprehension continues to be a barrier to effective student writing, and has been found to have an impact on choices of course, major, and even career. Yet the causes of writing apprehension have not been fully investigated. This study examined the relationship of comment placement, …
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Writing Apprehension of Black Students at a Private Historically Black Four Year Liberal Arts Institution
… of this study was to determine the level of writing apprehension among first generation students at a Private Historically Black Institution. Participants were 103 college students from the central region of Arkansas at a Private Historically Black Institution of which 103 students responded …
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The effects of the process approach on writing apprehension and writing quality among ESL students at university level in Malaysia
… (i.e. traditional and process approach) on writing apprehension among ESL students, and also the effect of the process approach on the overall quality and length of their writing. Students enrolled in Written Communication 1 course at the National University of Malaysia were chosen as the …
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The effect of teacher intervention, role modeling, and a gender-balanced bulletin board design on 10th grade male students' writing apprehension
… any preexisting differences in the levels of writing apprehension between males and females in a sample of 85 10th grade high school students enrolled in English classes available during a spring 2002 student teaching placement. An adapted form of John A. Daly and Michael D. Miller's (1975) …
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Priority-Area Consensus Conferencing: Peer Versus One-to-One, a Study of an Efficient Method for Achieving Significant Improvements in Freshman Writing Apprehension and Writing Skill
… efficient for the instructor who assigns longer writing tasks than Roger Garrison and Kenneth Bruffee generally recommend. Procedure. Attempts were made to match fifty control (teacher review) and fifty experimental (peer review) students by sex, age, career interests, English ACT scores, English …
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Word processing and the minority basic writer
… this study was to determine how the quality of writing of minority basic writers, their level of writing apprehension, and their evaluation of their first college writing course would be affected by: (a) the use or non use of word processing/text editing, (b) their initial level of writing …
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Test Anxiety and Other Factors as Predictors of Outcome For an Undergraduate University's Examination of Writing Competency
… the need for research in test anxiety (TA). Writing apprehension, a subcategory of TA, may be of particular concern among students at all levels of education given the recent addition of writing assessments on the SAT and GRE tests.</p> <p>Very few recent studies have examined demographic …
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Motivating underachieving students to write
Middle schools--Writing apprehension--Adolescent motivation--Peer interaction--Student letters--Writing workshops--Literature logs--Student self-evaluation.
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Motivating underachieving students to write
Middle schools--Writing apprehension--Adolescent motivation--Peer interaction--Student letters--Writing workshops--Literature logs--Student self-evaluation.
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Exploring Expression-Based Apprehension in Online and Traditional Sections of a General Education, Introductory Communication Course.
<p>Apprehension negatively impacts student learning. As online and hybrid communication courses continue to be offered it is important to expand and update research regarding the following constructs: communication apprehension, receiver apprehension, writing apprehension, and computer …
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An Examination of Selected Teaching Strategies to Test Their Effectiveness in the Teaching of Writing (Composition, Apprehension)
… the effects of the treatment instruction on the writing of simple, clear, and descriptive prose by college students, and examines whether that same type of instruction helps to reduce writing apprehension among those students.
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Writing Ourselves Out of Trouble: Exploring the Possibilities of Restorative Practices on Ninth Grade Writing Performance
… penal system, may positively impact student writing and better prepare them for the demands of college composition. Using grounded theory as a foundation, I use classroom observations, student interviews, and student writing sample analysis to explore the following questions: 1) What does …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
… and perform successfully in these required writing courses. To investigate this phenomenon, I studied the attitude and performance of returning adults (defined here as 25 years old and over) who were enrolled in traditional freshman composition classes at the University of Illinois at …
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The contribution of learning styles to the functioning of writing groups at the high school level
… learning styles contribute to the dynamics of writing groups and the effects of those groups on the development of writing maturity in two classes of sophomores at a mid-sized midwestern rural high school. Students' learning styles were assessed through testing with the Myers-Briggs Type …
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Personality types, writing strategies and college basic writers : four case studies
… basic writers at Ball State University and the writing strategies they used. Triangulation of data provided a thick description of the students. Scores from pre- and post-good writing questionnaires and process instruments (process logs and self-evaluations), student journals, student writing, …
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The Effect of Mode of Instruction on Composition I Students at Des Moines Area Community College
… focus of this project was to relate reading and writing in a way that addresses the needs of open enrollment community college students. The paradigm shifts in both reading and writing theory point to the social nature of language and indicate the need for linking these activities in useful ways. …
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