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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"writing processes"”.
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The Writing Processes of Theodore Taylor and Jane Yolen
<p>This study is a description of the writing processes of two professional writers for children and young adults, Theodore Taylor and Jane Yolen. Theories concerning the writing process and implications for classroom use, as expressed by Cowley, Smith, Murray, Flower and Hayes, Graves, and …
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The Role of Digital Literacy Activities in Students' Writing Processes
… thick description of digital writers’ composing processes. Recent studies of writing processes that involve computers rarely acknowledge that digital composing processes “weave together culture, the individual, and literacy” (Takayoshi “Social Worlds” 551). This study accounts for this gap in …
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Investigating the Impact of a Mentor Text Inquiry Approach to Narrative Writing Instruction on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Processes of Fourth Grade Students in an Urban Elementary School
Writing in its many forms, is the signature means of communication in the 21st century. Writing is also arguably the most complex and difficult challenge facing all students in school. The purpose of this study was to monitor the narrative writing performance of urban students who received explicit …
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Multimodal Composition and the Rhetoric of Comics: A Study of Comics Teams in Collaboration
The field of writing studies has long inquired about how writers engage in individualized writing processes. As an extension of this inquiry, contemporary scholarship in writing studies began to study collaborative writing through the understanding of writing as a social act. Our understanding of …
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Videotaping: A tool for self-evaluation in language arts processes
… to facilitate self-evaluation in the reading/writing processes.
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Videotaping: A tool for self-evaluation in language arts processes
… to facilitate self-evaluation in the reading/writing processes.
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
… to a mere learning opportunity, especially in writing, but as composition scholar Allison Carr has argued, this narrative masks the complex emotional landscape that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This qualitative case study uses phenomenography …
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Teaching not knowing: Reflections on a writing practice
… my high school classroom. Studying my students' writing processes and our interactions in writing conferences, I describe a philosophical stance that approaches teaching writing as improvisational, dialogic and relational. This reflection explores the conditions and attitudes which enhance our …
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Navigating ‘normal’: the writing lives of students on the spectrum
… classroom accommodations, and learning and writing processes, this project examines classroom inclusivity from the perspectives of neurodiverse students. I argue that my five participants demonstrate kairotic skill regarding appropriate times and places to disclose their autism diagnosis, …
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The Effects of Pre-Writing Strategy Training Guided by Computer-Based Procedural Facilitation on ESL Students’ Strategy Use, Writing Quantity, and Writing Quality
Pre-writing strategies are conscious thoughts, actions, or behaviors used by writers when they plan before writing. Research in second language writing suggests that specific writing strategies related to writing purposes, audience, brainstorming, and organizing ideas are teachable and have a …
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Learning through creative writing.
… a group of writers to explore the ways in which writing creatively and participating in a writing group contributes to their learning. The inquiry investigates self developmental, emotional and reflexive processes which are key aspects of transformative learning. Artistic ways of knowing are …
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Personality and Collaboration in the College Composition Classroom
… demonstrates the importance of collaborative writing in the college composition classroom. It incorporates personality theory as a means of studying writing processes, in addition to its use as a means of placing students into collaborative writing workshop groups. Ethnographic and …
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From Conflict to Concord: Copyeditors, Composition, and Technology
… in the publication process and within authors' writing and revision processes, this study examined how thirty copyeditors describe their roles; how they feel about their interactions with authors; and how they feel about the role of technology in the writing process and how they have adapted to …
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Examining the Potential Washback of a New Large -Scale English Proficiency Test: Aligning Tests, Teaching, and Learning
… on classroom practices. The Integrated Task is a writing task on a new English language proficiency test developed to assess English language learners (ELLS) in grades K-12. This study was conducted in an elementary school in the Midwest. Participants in the study included an ESL teacher, twelve …
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"All My Life I've Been Using Microsoft Word!": Incorporating Kidspiration, Power Point and Word into a Second Grade Writing Workshop
… Microsoft Power Point and Kidspiration into writing workshop influenced the writing processes and abilities of my second graders. They were provided with an open-ended writing project and had the opportunity to decide which computer program would be the most effective for presenting their …
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Setting Free the Birds : Heuristic Approaches to the Teaching of Creative Writing at the College Level
Problem. While creative writing classes have been a part of college curricula for nearly fifty years, little has been done to address the difficulties that students have in getting started with writing tasks, particularly in finding a subject and generating raw material at the pre-writing stage for …
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An ethnographic study of a group of first language standard eight pupils in a "model C" school attempting to communicate meaning in writing
This is an ethnographic study of the writing processes and meaningmaking attempts of a group of English first language pupils in a Cape Town secondary school. The project was based on a twostage design. During the first stage, pupils' writing behaviour was observed, and their writing samples and …
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Assigning Myself: an Action Research Investigation Into the Making of Writing Assignments
Were teachers of writing to complete their own writing assignments before giving them to their students, they could better determine if the assignments they give allow examination of issues they, themselves, need to address, if their assignments tend to accommodate their own writing style …
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Understanding the transition from high school to college for eight student writers
… interviews, school-based and out-of-school writing, process logs, think-aloud protocols, and interviews with students’ family members and teachers, the study also sought to understand how and why students’ composing processes changed in the transition to college, the instructional contexts …
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