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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"basic writing"”.
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Basic writing without basic writers
In this dissertation, I address Basic Writing’s legacy of ascribing deficient identities to students. I argue that there is no such thing as a “basic writer” and that the term is an unwanted inheritance of a historically inequitable system of higher education. This argument begins with a critique …
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Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing
… than in the hopeful and daunting attempt by Basic Writing students to leap-frog their way over the real socio-cultural, linguistic and/or politically constructed remedial barriers and into the mainstream of college life. This dissertation documents and analyzes a Basic Writing classroom at …
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Self-Directed Learning And The Development Of Self-Efficacy In Basic Writing
… and analyzes the work of two sections of basic writing over the course of one semester. I explore relevant research in Writing Studies, Cognitive Psychology, and Educational Psychology to build a framework within which to discuss pedagogical strategies implemented to support student’s …
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The Computer as a Tool in Teaching Basic Writing to College Freshmen
… explores the effects of the computer on the writing skills of 93 college students enrolled in a special Rhetoric program; these students were basic writers in that they demonstrated serious problems with correctness and clarity of ideas. The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, a CAI …
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Basic Writing, Binaries, and Bridges: Difference and Power in the Production and Reception of Representations of Students
… of students affect representations of teachers, writing instruction, and English studies as a whole. Damaging representations of students come from competing definitions of literacy. Because literacy definitions vary, representations of students vary with some students perceived as the "Other." …
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Taking a pedagogical turn: What happens when the student /teacher conference moves to the center of the basic writing course
<p>This dissertation examines the redesign of a basic writing course at a large, urban, majority-minority public university in Miami, Florida. In the redesigned course, there are no regular class meetings at all. Instead, small groups of five students meet with a teacher in "writing circles," where …
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Working-Class Black Male First -Year Writers and Their Composition Teaching Assistants: Negotiating Power and Authority in the Basic Writing Classroom
"This interpretive ethnography focuses on a basic writing course for one spring semester, examining the interpersonal dynamics between a young, white upper-middle-class teaching assistant, who favors certain aspects of decentered classroom pedagogy, and three African-American males, two of whom …
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Influences of an integrated teaching model and selected background characteristics on developmental studies student achievement in a community college
… Since standard instructional efforts to remedy basic skill deficiencies have yielded inconsistent results, an integrated teaching model was introduced. It was believed that the academic challenges experienced by basic writing students could be moderated by structured counseling support available …
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Exploring Basic Writers' Perceptions of Writing Center Use
… at the University of Southern Indiana's writing center by students in the two pre-core curriculum basic writing classes, this study explored the basic writing students' reasons for not attending the writing center. Since their attitudes toward writing and collaboration as well as some of …
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Strategies for First-Year University ESL Students to Improve Essay Writing Skills
<p>This project provides a writing guidebook for first-year university level English as a Second Language (ESL) students and teachers. Most ESL students have difficulties in academic English writing, especially first-year university ESL students. Due to the differences in linguistic and education …
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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE PROCESS OF SUPERORDINATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE WRITERS
<p>Using analyses of speak aloud writing protocols, this study describes the cognitive processes of community college writers as they use a series of drafts to derive superordinating statements about their experiences.</p><p>During the 1985-1986 school year, ten students from Northern Essex …
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An evaluation of the writing abilities of entry-level public relations practitioners and the industry demand to effectively write for new media
… investigation were to (a) evaluate the current writing abilities of entry-level public relations practitioners (b) determine the industry's demand to effectively write for new media and (c) identify educator's perceptions of entry-level public relations practitioners' writing abilities and …
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Predictors of Elementary-aged Students’ Writing Fluency Growth in Response to a Performance Feedback Writing Intervention
… evidence-based intervention for improving the writing fluency of elementary-aged students, approximately one-third do not exhibit fluency growth (Eckert et al. 2006, 2008). The transcription skill of handwriting is a prerequisite of skilled writing (Berninger et al., 2002) and interventions to …
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Writing Apprehension and Writing Competency: Comparison between Whole Language Students and Skills Orientated Students
Previous research on writing competency and writing apprehension suggests that the lack of one (competency) increases the level of the other (apprehension). The same also seems to be true for the reverse—the greater the competency, the lower the apprehension. Yet, many questions still remain as to …
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Multiple literacies in a multicultural setting: Contextualizing nontraditional students' appropriation of virtuality and reality
… at the acquisition of academic discourse(s) in a basic writing class and at the strategies students bring to the task. I problematize research that takes an undifferentiated approach to gender discourse and to discourse strategies used by basic writers. Instead, I foreground the ambiguous and …
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