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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Writing classrooms"”.
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Rewriting writing: classrooms as the construction site for literacy between teachers, students, and the curriculum
… two spaces: teacher collaboration meetings and writing events in the classroom. Specifically, the project seeks to answer the following research questions: How do teachers construct their beliefs about literacy in collaborative spaces? How do teachers interpret and enact the mandated, literacy …
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Promoting Conceptual Development through Mediation: An Investigation of Gal’perin’s Concept-Based Instruction of Genre in Chinese EFL Writing Classrooms
… The present study explored the use of CBI in L2 writing by conceptualizing L2 writing development as a process of internalizing the concept of genre, a complex yet often oversimplified concept in L2 writing instruction. Adopting a mixed methods approach, this research investigated both the effect …
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Small-group Student Talk Before Individual Writing in Chinese Tertiary English-as-a-foreign-language Writing Classrooms: Nature, Effects, and Perceptions
Recent research in L2 addressing student talk for writing development has documented much on student talk in pairs/groups during collaborative writing tasks, or in peer feedback interactions for revision after writing. Comparatively, less is known about using student talk as prewriting discussions …
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Assessment and collaborative writing: Conflict to complement
One of the fundamental problems facing writing instructors who use collaboration is that traditional assessment measures, such as in-class essay exams, undermine rather than support such writing activities that are rooted in social construction theory. While the use of collaboration in writing …
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Liberation through Listening: Learning from Student Veterans in the Composition Classroom
… experiences of student veterans in introductory writing classrooms. Drawing on the theories of feminist standpoint (Harding, 1986) and rhetorical listening (Ratcliffe, 2005), I describe the current cultural divide between members of the military and civilians (Pew Research Center, 2011) and …
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Higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion
… thinking skills were measured in students’ writing throughout a dynamic process as well as from a final product. Using the revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in English Composition (COMP) and Introduction to Technical Communication (TCOM) writing classrooms, synchronous …
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Political Emotions: Toward a Fresh Perspective on Collective Emotion in Composition Work
… for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the social and political turn in composition studies, the expectation for disrupting the normative political values and beliefs …
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UNEARTHING ENTANGLEMENTS: HUMAN/MACHINE COLLABORATION IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM
… and pedagogy when automation is deployed in writing classrooms. The sites of analysis are Eli Review and Turnitin, two technologies that represent different design approaches that center around “informating” or “automating” data about student work. The exigence for this project emerges out of …
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VAGABONDS AND THE VIRTUAL: IDENTITY, ECONOMICS AND ETHICS IN THE GENRE OF DIGITAL TRAVEL WRITING
While the genre of travel writing has been popular with authors and audiences over centuries, developments in new media, social media and public use genres have caused an adaptation of the genre in the digital space. This genre, as it exists, claims two antecedents: first, the traditional and …
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Asking Appalachia: Appalachian English in the Writing Classroom
… perception of Appalachian English, experience in writing classrooms, and exposure to Appalachian literature which establishes that as students they are negatively impacted by the current treatment of their language. Further, this thesis lays groundwork for better pedagogical practices for …
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Writing their way to the university: An investigation of Chinese high school students' preparation for writing in English in high schools, cram schools, and online
… studies in U.S. universities in terms of English writing from three perspectives: English writing instruction in high schools, private supplementary tutoring (PST) in English writing in cram schools, and experience with writing online and using online resources. On the basis of data from a …
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Postmodern Feminist Pedagogy in a First-Year Writing Class
… even a decade ago. Yet the pedagogy of college writing classrooms has been slow to reflect societal change. What contributions can feminist theory and postmodern theory make to the field of college composition? If specific elements of such theorizing are infused into a first year writing class, …
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Out With the Old, In With Revitalized Grammar Through Style-based Composition Pedagogy
… improved clarity and effectiveness of student writing. Grammar is a primary component of spoken and written language; however, its teaching is often overlooked in many first-year writing classrooms. Composition instructors, then, are challenged to design an improved curriculum inclusive of …
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Responding to response: An investigation of ESL writing revision practices in response to teacher feedback
… is a common element of process based ESL writing classrooms, the effect that teacher feedback has on subsequent student revisions is largely undetermined. In this study, the relationship between written comments and student revisions was investigated. The way students responded to teacher …
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Silent Readers, Silenced Readers: LGBT Student Perceptions of LGBT Representation in Composition Readers
… has on LGBT students in composition classrooms, and identify numerous benefits---as well as potential risks---of the presence of LGBT-related selections in composition readers. Building on the work of Malinowitz in Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of …
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Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors
… that when we engage standardized English in our writing classrooms, we engage histories of industrial relations of power that Ford inscribed onto the body of working-class migrants over a century ago. Through intuitional documents, I trace key moments in Ford’s industrial education project, as …
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"""Writing teachers must write"": tracing trajectories of teacher participation across professional and everyday practices"
Although the idea that “writing teachers must write” is pervasive, little is known about how teachers’ participation in out-of-school writing practices shapes their writing instruction. To date, most research on teacher practice has been limited to institutional settings like classrooms, …
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Negotiating spaces: Student agency in writer’s workshop
… conceptualized and enacted in writer’s workshop classrooms. Context. This study was conducted in a diverse middle school in a small urban area. The two sixth grade classrooms were taught by a teacher with five years of experience. These classrooms implemented writer’s workshop and writing …
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