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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"writing practices"”.
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Looking in: Mapping representations of teachers' discursive writing practices
… policies have created discursive shifts in writing theory and practice. While these policies have historically privileged a particular view of writing over others, very little is known about how New Zealand teachers engage with discourses of writing. Research in the field of literacy has …
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Models of professional writing practices within the field of computer science
… surveyed and interviewed to identify the English writing products and processes characteristic of their professional work. Twenty-two major genres were identified and grouped according to purpose. Fourteen significant contextual factors that affected writing production and, ultimately, success in …
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Crafting true stories: an interpretation of four Australian journalists’ nonfiction writing practices
… a case study analysis of the nonfiction writing practice of four Australian journalists: Christopher Kremmer, Annabel Crabb, Ben Stubbs and Shannon Harvey. Their explanations of key influences on their nonfiction writing such as news reporting experiences and motivations for writing …
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The role of the writing center in the writing practices of L2 students
Writing centers are gradually becoming more and more visible on college campuses. This greater visibility is often seen, administratively, as a solution to the language problems posed by a growing population of students for whom English is a second or other language (L2). L2 students are increasing …
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Evidence-Based Teaching of Writing Practices: A Survey and Intervention at Elementary and High School Level
Writing skills are important for social and civic participation, educational achievement and employment (European Commission, 2012). However, a third to a half of Scottish students did not attain required writing standards at upper elementary and lower high school grades in 2014 (Scottish …
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Engineering texts: a study of a community of aerospace engineers, their writing practices, and technical proposals
… is a report of a six-year study of working and writing practices in an engineering environment. It is an investigation into a distinctive discourse community of design engineers conducted from an ethnographic perspective. It surveys the engineers’ attitudes towards writing and texts, and …
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The tactical dialectic: reframing tactical technical communication through the writing practices of activists and technical experts
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… informs the way compositionists teach writing to undocumented, multilingual writers, particularly Latina/o student populations whose issues are most reflected in the activism of the DREAMers. I argue for a critical pedagogy based on migrant activist genres and in the Writing Across …
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Effective ESL writing practices: the impact of effective teachers' principles and practices on their students' learning outcomes
This study investigated the principles and practices of a group of three effective ESL writing teachers at UIUC and the impact of their pedagogical decisions on their students' learning. Data collection was done through a period of three weeks and consisted of class observations, class documents …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… of sculpture at the same moment poetic practices begin to query language as a situated medium. As sculpture becomes increasingly engaged with the absence of its traditional materials, the cave (defined by an absence in stone) becomes a significant site of activity among a group of …
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Challenges of a new academic discourse: an investigation into the reading and writing practices of first-year chemical engineering students at a South African University
… university, has triggered this study of literacy practices in the first project task in a core first-year chemical engineering course, in a four-year undergraduate degree programme at a South African university. Most reviewed engineering courses incorporate a socialisation approach into valued …
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Exploring the out-of-school writing practices of three children aged 9 - 10 years old and how these practices travel across and within the domains of home and school
This study explores the writing practices of children aged 9-10 years across the settings of home and school. It examines the nature of the out-of-school writing practices of three case study children, within and across these domains. Additionally, it seeks to understand the children’s relationship …
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Making wonder tales : an exploration of material writing practice for ecological storymaking
… new stories may be shaped through contemporary writing practices. Digital technologies provide writers with new opportunities for practice and for reflection on their role in making and sharing stories. This research inquiry uses practice as research to uncover links between material writing …
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"""Writing teachers must write"": tracing trajectories of teacher participation across professional and everyday practices"
Although the idea that “writing teachers must write” is pervasive, little is known about how teachers’ participation in out-of-school writing practices shapes their writing instruction. To date, most research on teacher practice has been limited to institutional settings like classrooms, …
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Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh
… as it explores their unique manuscript and print practices. The critical methods employed are primarily historicist and formal and founded on close reading of revision processes, literary source materials and formal poetics. Additionally, each chapter argues that the contexts of relationship and …
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Renaissance vertical reading from vers rapporté to Shakespeare's Sonnets
… Sonnets reveals the evolution of reading and writing practices during the Renaissance period. Combining literary history and theory, cognitive archaeology, and formal analysis, this thesis attempts to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the literary, cultural and cognitive foundations …
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A comparative analysis of academic literacy specifications for a standardised test and academic literacy requirements for reading and writing in a range of disciplinary contexts
… the kinds of literacies required for reading and writing for various subjects across diploma programmes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether alignment between the academic literacy test specifications and reading and writing practices in and across diploma subjects would support the …
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Textbook, chalkboard, notebook: resemiotization in a Mozambican primary school
… sociolinguistic study describes the writing practices of teachers and students in a Portuguese-language primary school in Mozambique. In the classroom, teachers and students engage in a text-chain ritual in which the teacher copies a text from the textbook onto the chalkboard, which …
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An Analysis of Intertextuality in Disciplinary Writing
This study found that academic writing genres reflected diversity within and across disciplines. Each discipline had preferred writing conventions and students learned to write to attract particular audiences' attention by following these conventions. In the process of disciplinary enculturation, …
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