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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Writing Apprehension Test"”.
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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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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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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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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
<p>This study tested the hypothesis that seventh-grade students who practiced 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 …
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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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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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Writing with computers : a study of adult developmental writers
… education are placed in developmental or basic writing classes. With the prevalence of computers on university campuses, some of these writing classes are taught in computerbased classrooms, which may cause adult learners to be apprehensive of both writing and computers. Previous research …