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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Writing as a process"”.
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Writing as a Process: A Portfolio
Technical writing.
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The Impact of Recent Research Trends on the Teaching of Writing in the Middle Grades
<p>This was a descriptive study which measured the attitudes and practices of teachers in the middle grades concerning the teaching of writing. Subjects were 42 teachers of writing in grades five through eight in four small rural school systems. The data gathering instrument was a questionnaire …
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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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Collaboration in the Writing Classroom: a Study of Thai University Students
This experimental study was designed to investigate Thai students at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand on their attitudes and preferences toward peer collaboration in an English writing class. The study took three consecutive weeks to be done. There were 32 participants in this study: 12 in …
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Inquiry into the Writing Pedagogy for Middle School Language Arts
<p>This is a narrative inquiry into writing pedagogies of middle school language arts teachers and an administrator. Six teacher participants were interviewed and observed, their lesson plans were analyzed, and their instructional practices and writing philosophies were examined. Overarching …
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Navigating Landscapes of Longing and Belonging: Dialogues of Capoeira and Welsh Folk Dance in Intercultural Performance
… enquiry exploring the innovative methods and processes employed throughout Perguntas & Atebion (2011-2013), an intercultural practice research exchange project between artists from Wales and Brazil, that was co-led by myself, a Welsh dancer and choreographer and Brazilian musician and …
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Cultural Perspectives on Photography Education: An Inquiry into Pedagogy and Student Experiences in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and University of Wales Trinity Saint David
… on Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) as a primary case study, with comparative reference to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) in the UK. Drawing on the author’s experiences in China and the UK, it investigates how cultural and institutional differences shape course …
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Practice and Efficacy of Peer Writing Feedback in a Large First-Year Engineering Course
… Despite compelling arguments that that writing should be treated as a situated activity, writing instruction is often separated from content instruction within engineering curricula. Even when they are integrated, it is often in a way does not optimally support improvement of students' …
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A study of peer tutor training programs and a peer tutor training program for Drake University
For many years universities and colleges have had writing workshops for creative writers. However, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, college and university administrators and department heads moved to establish workshops for remedial writers. Two things precipitated this movement: one, writing …
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Computer Technology in Writing Centers: Ways to Increase Their Effectiveness in the Instruction of Freshman English and Intercurricular Studies
Creating a space in Room 127 that is increasingly vital to English 100 is more complicated than just having students write on computers. To maximize our potentials in Room 127, we must deal with a variety of aspects — the history of the Writing Center, its functions, perceptions of it, pedagogies …