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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Writing courses"”.
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Faculty Members’ Perceptions Regarding The Role Of Assessment In Developmental Writing Courses
… regarding how they design and implement writing assessments to evaluate Student Learning Outcomes in developmental English/writing courses. The study identified teaching faculty members’ pedagogical beliefs about the purposes of writing assessment and instructors’ attention to Student …
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Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Student Inquiry And Rhetorical Awareness In College Writing Courses
<p>This dissertation describes and analyzes the work of a semester-long teacher research study of inquiry-based and reflective teaching and learning strategies and their impact on students' preparation for future learning. I explore relevant scholarship on knowledge transfer, classroom ecologies, …
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Pakistani graduate student's perspective on the effectiveness of ESL writing courses at an American university
… and how they perceived the effectiveness of ESL writing courses they have taken. The primary data source was an online survey; follow up questions from student participants and in-depth interviews from their course instructors. In order to examine how different mediums of instructions influence …
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Language And Literacy Skills of Adolescent University Students Enrolled in Developmental And Traditional College-Level Writing Courses
… Students were recruited from the following Core Writing courses: English (ENG) 098, ENG 100I, and ENG 102. Most students had completed their initial Core Writing course in Fall of 2011. They were given an assessment battery measuring the following language-related skills: non-verbal IQ, reading …
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In their voices, with their words: a case study of student success in accelerated developmental writing courses
… voice to students in accelerated developmental writing courses. Using a review of survey data and structured interviews, students were asked about their lived experience in accelerated developmental writing courses. Four cases of students were studied from two different community college …
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TOEFL as a prediction tool for placement into ESL writing courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… exemption) of international students into ESL writing and pronunciation classes. Over the last three years, UIUC has experienced an increase in number of international students taking the EPT. Some on campus have suggested that TOEFL might be a suitable pre-screening tool for predicting ESL …
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Attitudes toward ESL use of corpora in second language writing courses and its effects on error-correction identification and learning by L2 learners of English
… in overall student grammatical accuracy in essay writing, however it was not significant. Results also showed the article, preposition, word form and plural to be the most commonly committed ESL errors, whereas spelling, verb tense and aspect, punctuation and connectors had the most improved …
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Student attitudes toward blended and online courses: a comparison of students in traditional classroom writing environments and students in blended writing environments
… of student attitudes toward blended and online courses. Specifically, the study compares two groups of university freshmen writing students. These groups respectively took writing classes in traditional classroom environments (without individual computers for each student in the classroom) 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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Queer writes: A phenomenological study of LGBTQIA+ students’ identity and belonging following the United States Supreme Court Obergefell decision
… little is known about the impact that first-year writing courses may have upon these college students’ identity and sense of belongingness while at college. This qualitative phenomenological case study of eight young adult LGBTQIA+ college students’ experiences with discrimination while at college …
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The Composition of Postsecondary Institutions: An Ecological Approach to Pedagogy
… theories to suggest new topics for writing courses, new analogies or models for thinking about the teaching of writing, and new curricular goals. My contribution is to suggest the benefits of adapting a poststructural understanding of ecology that consequently calls our attention …
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Teachers' written comments and students' responses: A socially constructed interaction
… and four less successful writers in first-year writing courses at one college provided the basis for this investigation. The research methods used in this study included interviews, observations, and document analysis.
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"I Can Do This": Understanding the Feedback Experiences of Linguistically Diverse Students in a Corequisite Writing Class
… diverse students into corequisite first-year writing courses. In addition to exploring various corequisite models and the ways in which they provide academic and linguistic support, it is the goal of this study to specifically examine how linguistically diverse students observe and respond to …
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Distributed Argumentative Activity: Redefining Arguments and Their Re -Mediation From a Sociohistoric Perspective
… I apply the findings of these case studies to writing studies pedagogy, claiming that to prepare students to argue in diverse settings and to employ evolving media, writing courses must call attention to tacit and explicit negotiations over expectations, knowledge, tools, and so on. I consider …
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Teaching English to Nonnative English-Speaking Chinese International Students: A Culturally Responsive Approach
… the practices of instructors who teach English writing to nonnative speakers, specifically international Chinese students at higher education institutions across the United States. Participants were those instructors of gateway English/writing courses at both two-year and four-year higher …
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Basic skill achievement factors as predictors of success in selected community college general education course
… skills reading, elementary algebra, and English/ writing courses with the students' success in selected college-level general education courses in an attempt to establish predictor variables. In addition, the study examines the possibility that predictions of success in general education courses …
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Messages In Bottles: Creative Writing, Distance Learning Pedagogy & Poetics
… College of the Arts 2 distance learning creative writing courses and tutorial support systems. Starting To Write, The Experience Of Poetry, Storylines and the Advanced writing courses cover academic levels 1- 3 of undergraduate study and were accredited by the University of Glamorgan in 1996, …
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and Beyond the Writing Classroom: Teaching Writing through Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Methods
… like Students' Right to Their Own Language in writing and composition studies gets taken up in writing pedagogies. The project includes research into Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) pedagogies as well. DEI practices were researched in three separate case studies: one in first-year writing …
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Development and Delivery of Mobile Learning for Composition Classrooms
… potential for integrating mobile technologies in writing courses and writing centers in ways that value contemporary composition pedagogy and in ways people actually use smartphones. Such an approach consists primarily of unpacking the usage patterns, user experiences, and attendant attitudes of …
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Competencies needed by teachers of developmental English in two-year colleges
… students who are academically deficient in their writing skills. To meet the needs of these students, many colleges have designed and implemented developmental English courses which, unfortunately, have not always shown a high degree of success. Many studies have been made to identify …
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