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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Writing--Study and teaching"”.
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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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Imitation, not theft: a mixed-methods study of plagiarism
This mixed-methods study examines how student writers’ use of others’ work that is labeled plagiaristic may actually represent productive attempts to engage in scholarly discourse through imitation, which has a long history of use in pedagogy. The study’s two research questions were: do points of …
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An Analysis of the Argumentative Writing Skills of Academically Underprepared College Students
The present study was conducted to extend what is known about the writing skills of low achieving postsecondary students. Using an archival data set, a sample of argumentative essays written by community college developmental (remedial) education students was analyzed. Scoring procedures for …
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Evoking Visual Imagination in Teaching Writing: ESL Students' Perspectives
This study examines the relationship between encouraging visual imagination 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 …
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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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The impact of a training program in phonological awareness on children's early writing
This study examined the effects that a training program in phonological awareness had on the early writing skills of children in a Grade One class in the Lincoln County Separate school system. The intent of the training program was to provide consistent and systematic practice in the manipulation …
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Communicating Images: A Narrative Based Approach to the Process of Writing (A Curriculum Design)
… developed by the writer over a ten year period and has been used in its present form in college classrooms for four consecutive years. The practical aspects of the design are supported by carefully explored theoretical underpinnings from the discipline of rhetoric and the fields of composition, …
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