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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Writing pedagogy"”.
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Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy
… identify shortcomings in contemporary business writing pedagogies that result in students being insufficiently prepared for the writing challenges of their post-college careers and, to develop an alternative pedagogy that addresses these problems. To achieve these ends I review the recent …
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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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The (un)common reader : investigating common readers in first-year writing pedagogy
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"It takes a lot out of you": ethnography of secondary English teachers' writing pedagogy
… traditional teaching methods in the teaching of writing, and secondly, teacher perceptions influence writing (composing) choices. Findings include the teachers’ modification of the Writing Process (Emig, 1971) omitting social learning aspects, pervasiveness of formula writing, teachers’ desire …
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We Must Teach Wisely and Lead Aright': Civic Literacy and Writing Pedagogy In Late Nineteenth Century American Women's Journalism
… and 3) enact rhetorical education and/or writing instruction. Black, Mossell, and La Flesche use journalism as a site of important pedagogical work by encouraging reading, writing, and public participation among their readers--particularly through specific 'teacherly' strategies and …
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Developing L2 Writing Teacher Expertise: An Exploratory Study of MA TESOL Students’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Writing Across Three UK Programmes
… (TESOL) with regards to the teaching of L2 writing. Drawing on data from interviews with participants across three UK universities, it explores how participants’ conceptualisations of L2 writing and L2 writing instruction relate to the development of their Pedagogical Content Knowledge for …
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Examining maintained authenticity in a modified process-oriented English placement test
… exam for a program using process-oriented writing pedagogy presents many challenges. Practitioners and researchers have debated both the nature of authentic assessment and nature of process-oriented writing for more than forty years. The University of Illinois found some success creating an …
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A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities
… college investment, technology redefining what “writing” is, a postmodern audience, and most concerning, the challenge to find an instructional model in a sea of pedagogies void of Christian ideology. The field of composition and rhetoric, unlike literature and other disciplines, does not have a …
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Creative Writing in the Threshold Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor
Creative Writing in the ȋreshold: Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor is a thesis that combines academic and creative writing to investigate narratives by tutors in Ibero-American academic institutions. Accompanying my research is a handmade …
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An investigation into the relationship between the educational context and the written product of university EFL students with implications for the teaching of writing
… University learners face in their composition writing courses at the Department of English Language and Literature. The research is carried out through a longitudinal study of both the context and the product of writing across a four year EFL writing course. Findings suggest that the writing …
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Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials
<p>This dissertation decenters the writing program archive through research on instructors’ digital archives. Artifacts of composition instruction are no longer saved to print archives alone; rather, digital technologies expand the locations where artifacts of writing pedagogy can be archived and …
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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
Voice is an integral part of writing instruction, and over half of state writing assessments include voice on scoring rubrics; yet, there is a dearth of research on voice and writing instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… To do so, I examine the rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin Phelps, an accomplished nineteenth-century preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary. In drawing from the archival materials at the first graduate seminary in the United …
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The write rationale : teaching and assessing writing in English home language in the senior phase
… how English teachers are expected to teach writing in English Home Language in the Senior Phase. However, when its implicit pedagogy is evaluated according to what five decades of research and theory have confirmed as best practice, it is found wanting. This is largely due to its foundation …
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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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Stories About Writing (Centers): Sites of Innovation in (Online) Writing Instruction
… dissertation I study the University of Houston Writing Center (UHWC) as a site for innovative writing instruction while simultaneously critiquing business-model approaches to the teaching of writing. Using the Writing Center as a microcosm for the larger issues affecting writing pedagogy, I …
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Stance and engagement in postgraduate writing: a comparative study of English NS and Arab EFL student writers in Linguistics and Literature
… used such features in their academic writing. The findings suggest that while it is true that both disciplinary community and cultural background are very likely to have an impact on the way writers position themselves and their readers, there are other factors related to the students’ …
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An Analysis of Undergraduate Creative Writing Students'Writing Processes: Gauging the Workshop Models' Effectiveness Through the Lens of Genre Theories
… creative writers the ways to success in creative writing courses consist largely of workshop style classes. While workshops often vary from class to class in style, generally a workshop will consist of a group of writers, led by a mentor/instructor, who exchange drafts and provide reader and …
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Improving second-year university student teachers paragraph writing skills
… study was undertaken to improve the paragraph-writing skills of second-year university student-teachers. The main research question that guided the study was: How can second-year university student-teachers improve their paragraph writing skills? Specifically, paragraph errors commonly made by …
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