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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Writing Exercises"”.
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A study examining the effect of multi-sensory stimulation on the descriptive writing of fourth grade students
… to determine if multi-sensory stimulation during writing exercises would increase the number of descriptive elements used by fourth grade students. Thirty-five students in two intact classrooms participated in the nonequivalent control group design study. A learning styles questionnaire was …
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Evoking Visual Imagination in Teaching Writing: ESL Students' Perspectives
… and ESL (English as a Second Language) writing performance. It was designed as a onesemester case study of two groups: high-intermediate and intermediate ESL writers, using a series of pre-writing activities designed to stimulate visual imagination. As an investigation of imagination …
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Expressive Writing: A Technique for Improving Communication in Individuals with Autism and Related Disorders
… provides a survey of personally expressive writing approaches in psychology and composition and rhetoric, followed by an overview of symptoms and treatments of autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and ReH Syndrome. A series of graduated expressive writing exercises is proposed to facilitate …
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Mathematics Achievement and Writing Assignments Among Urban Middle-School Students
… for the study of whether the inclusion of writing assignments affected mathematics achievement. Total math scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were compared before and after various writing exercises were given to one class. A comparison of the post-test means found no significant …
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The Rhetoric of Second Chance: The Invention of Ethos For An Ex-Offender
For many, literacy is reading and writing- a critical tool for ethos construction. But for a marginalized group of ex-offenders, former prison inmates, who were not accustomed to reading and writing as an agent for character invention, the ability to employ literacy and to construct ethos was a …
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Attending Your Own Funeral: Effects of a Brief ACT-Based Eulogy-Writing Exercise on Delay Discounting, Psychological Flexibility, and Value Clarity
Eulogy writing exercises are used in clinical and research settings, yet they have received limited empirical testing in controlled experimental designs. The Attending Your Own Funeral (AYOF) task, drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, was compared with a matched neutral-writing control in …
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Strategies for First-Year University ESL Students to Improve Essay Writing Skills
<p>This project provides a writing guidebook for first-year university level English as a Second Language (ESL) students and teachers. Most ESL students have difficulties in academic English writing, especially first-year university ESL students. Due to the differences in linguistic and education …
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Integrating a writing component into a collegiate-level drawing course
This study describes the integration of writing exercises into a college-level drawing course. The written exercises encouraged students to think metaphorically about and reflect on the technical processes of drawing, as well as the personal meanings which underlie the expressive side to their …
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The enactment of a curriculum event
… students in the classroom (through open ended writing exercises), and an experienced researcher on classrooms from the University of Arizona. Hymes's "heuristic set of components" is used to analyze the event. These components are setting, participants, ends, act sequence, key, …
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Rural Realities Unveiled: Non-Certified Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions of Scripted Literacy Curriculum in K-5 Classrooms
… outcomes. Data collection included reflective writing exercises, classroom observations, and semi-structured interviews with NCTs teaching in rural K-5 classrooms. Thematic analysis was employed to identify patterns in participants’ experiences, revealing insights into the benefits and …
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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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Understanding Anticipatory Socialization for New Student Affairs Professionals
… Participants engaged in 3 rounds of journal writing exercises and interviews at different stages of their anticipatory socialization. It was found that these participants experienced and managed a public job search, as well as a private job search.Aspects of the public job search included the …
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Developing and evaluating domain models for programming skills using learning curve analysis
… insights from solutions to open-ended code-writing exercises.
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So very hard to go: An action research project on cultural affirmation
… insights, college success strategies, and writing exercises that can guide students <em>to</em> focus <em>on</em> their assets strengths (<em>cultural</em> capital). The <em>action</em> <em>research</em> textbook seeks <em>to</em> encourage students <em>to</em> complete their community …
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Using electronic writing to promote students' writing
… purpose of this study was to promote students' writing by using electronic writing (e-writing) tools. Formal writing can lack the use of imagination and fun; thus, it is important to combine formal writing strategies and digital tools to offer a more enjoyable experience for students via the …
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Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Ethics Education Strategy for Undergraduate Medical Education
… material on various topics in medical ethics and writing exercises to assess students’ learning. The workbook was also shared via email with external experts in the field of ethics education for their critical review, as a part of the research design. This led to an evidence-based development and …
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Genre, academic writing and e-learning: An integrated tertiary level Taiwan-based study
… online learning and the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as an additional language. At its core is a study involving an intensive genre-centered writing course conducted in a tertiary educational institution in Taiwan and delivered in three modes - face-to-face, fully online …
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Teaching communication in sex education: Facilitating communication skills knowledge and ease of use
… do not. Participants went through a series of writing exercises as they read the module, requiring them to either reflect on how the information could be useful in their own lives or simply summarize what they read. It was expected that participants who did the writing activity that requires …