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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Writing Topic"”.
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The Relationship Between Gender Differences and Writing Topic Choices of Middle School Students
… 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 samples …
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The Investigation of Writing Topic, Type and Style Choices of the 1981 Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors
… studied the difference between the choice of topic, type and style in children's writing and grade levels. The sample of the study consisted of 84 students in grades one through six in southwest Missouri whose manuscripts were selected for the 1981 Young Authors' Conference at Southwest …
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A Comparative Study of Writing Topic Choices of the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors
… this study was to investigate the difference in writing topic choices of young writers. The sample for this study included all the prose manuscripts which were selected for participation in the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Young Authors' Conferences at Southwest Missouri State University. Manuscripts …
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Literacy choice in a first grade classroom
… Students were given choice pertaining to writing assignments and publishing preferences as well as guided reading material. Students completed an interest inventory at the start of the research to better understand the types of literacy activities that may interest them. The students were …
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Like dancers following each other's steps : an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences
… abilities to consider multiple audiences. The writing topic assigned to all 165 first-year students is identical except for the audience: one-third of the students wrote a persuasive letter to an authority figure; one-third wrote a persuasive letter to a close friend; and one-third were not …
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Effects of Writing About Trauma and Best Possible Future Self on Health and Mood
… studies which indicated beneficial effects of writing about stressful experiences on health; however, negative emotional experiences associated with the writing task have also been reported in these studies. Recently, King (2001) introduced the Best Possible Future Self (BPS) as a writing topic …
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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 …