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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"freshman writing"”.
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Priority-Area Consensus Conferencing: Peer Versus One-to-One, a Study of an Efficient Method for Achieving Significant Improvements in Freshman Writing Apprehension and Writing Skill
… efficient for the instructor who assigns longer writing tasks than Roger Garrison and Kenneth Bruffee generally recommend. Procedure. Attempts were made to match fifty control (teacher review) and fifty experimental (peer review) students by sex, age, career interests, English ACT scores, English …
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Understanding the Role of Personality Type Theory in the High School Composition Class
… the final product. Inherent in the belief that writing is a process is also the belief that all writers approach writing using different processes that are characteristic of their personality type. Because existing studies focus on the college freshman writing student, little has been done …
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A regional survey of writing in six subject areas in colleges and universities accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
… study investigated the nature and frequency of writing tasks undertaken by students in colleges and universities granting bachelor's degrees in institutions accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. A sample of seventy-five institutions was drawn, and surveys were …
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Triggering transformation: College freshmen use children's literature to consider social justice perceptions
… guided the study: 1) How do students in a freshman writing course at a small, private liberal arts college initially perceive social justice? 2) How will critical reading of children's literature texts impact students' perceptions of social justice? 3) How do students self-identified as …
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Exploring the Relationship between English Composition Teachers' Beliefs about Written Feedback and Their Written Feedback Practices
<p>For teachers of freshman English composition, the most time-consuming aspect of teaching is responding to student papers (Anson, 2012; Straub, 2000b). Teachers respond in various ways, but most teachers agree that they should offer written feedback to students (Beach & Friedrich, 2006). However, …
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Student participation, interaction, and regulation in a computer-mediated communication environment
… that occurred in computer-mediated interactive writing activities in two different classroom settings: a freshman writing class and a plant biology lab. Both classes were equipped with a network of Macintosh computers and the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment software which was used to …
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The Conference on College Composition and Communication: a historical study of its continuing education and professionalization activities, 1949-1975
… the body of knowledge about the discipline of writing grew, conference topics evolved from general discussions of problems to the dissemination of more specialized research and theory depending on the leadership of a few persons. The journal evolved from little more than a pamphlet, printing …
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Revision Cues : A Study of Freshman Writers
… Composition scholars generally agree that writing is a process including prewriting, writing and revision. Revision has only recently been addressed by research, consequently little is known of how students actually revise their writing; and even less is known of how to guide and direct …
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The Effectiveness of Web Conferencing Technology in Student-Teacher Conferencing in the Writing Classroom: A Study of First-Year Student Writers
… in the role of computers in the first-year writing classroom. This explorative, case study investigates the use of Web conferencing software as a medium for student-teacher writing conferences. Using qualitative methodology, this researcher conducted out-of-class Web conferences with three …