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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"writing skills"”.
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Improving second-year university student teachers paragraph writing skills
… study was undertaken to improve the paragraph-writing skills of second-year university student-teachers. The main research question that guided the study was: How can second-year university student-teachers improve their paragraph writing skills? Specifically, paragraph errors commonly made by …
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Developing First Year ESL Undergraduates’ Source-based Writing Skills
Source-based writing is the most common genre of academic writing in higher education. It is a complex writing task encompassing the synergistic utilisation of reading, writing, and higher order thinking skills. Many students struggle to meet the demands and requirements of tertiary level writing …
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The Technical Writing Skills of Josiah Flynt and Ida Tarbell
… reviewed out of respect for the history of the writing profession and for practical benefits. A study of their lives can give us ideas to improve our own work. Flynt and Tarbell were two very different personalities, but they both made valuable contributions to the occupation of investigative …
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Influence of Kindergarten Journal Writing on Building Reading and Writing Skills
… of the study is directed to the use of journal writing in kindergarten classrooms and its influence on building foundational skills for reading and writing. Research was directed at examining literature regarding journal writing with kindergarten students and researcher-conducted interviews with …
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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 Validation Study of a Writing Skills Test for Police Recruit Applicants
… of a direct test of higher-order and lower-order writing abilities needed for police report writing. This test was specifically designed to address report writing deficiencies experienced by police in the training academy. Descriptive statistics were examined, and relationships between this test …
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Using extensive feedback to improve writing skills within a social studies context
… content knowledge, mechanics and rhetorical skills. From the body of all student work, the writing of five students of varying abilities was examined in detail to determine the effect of feedback on student writing skills. Examination of subsequent student drafts and assignments from these …
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An Analysis of the Argumentative Writing Skills of Academically Underprepared College Students
… 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 argumentation …
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Using digital stories to improve writing skills of students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Writing is an important medium to express one's ideas and needs and is an integral part of the curriculum in secondary schools. Within an accountability system, students are expected to compose narrative, persuasive, and informational essays for state and district level assessments. Students with …
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Using digital feedback in support of middle school students’ persuasive writing skills: A Bernsteinian perspective
… and students to learn together about persuasive writing. My interest in persuasive writing arose during my reading of Bernstein’s work. Bernstein argues there are two types of codes, or discourses: restricted and elaborated codes. Students from more advantaged backgrounds can switch between these …
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Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer
… student with excellent comprehension and oral skills but impaired execution of writing tasks to produce cohesive, well-organized stories within a given time. It was hypothesized that by breaking up the assignments into visual chunks (speech bubbles), taking away the threat of a blank page to be …
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Case studies of academic writing in the sciences: a focus on the development of writing skills
The aim of the present thesis is to make a longitudinal study of changes affecting sentence-initial elements in articles published over time by a sample of researchers in international journals of physics. The linguistic framework adopted for such a study is a systematic-functional one. The general …
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A case study of writing skills growth of three eighth-grade students in a writing workshop classroom
Writing samples were collected over an eight month period from three 8th grade students. Using these samples along with student-teacher conference notes and the results of a literacy interview, the writing growth of each student was analyzed. Each student shows development of strong writing skills …
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The Effect of a Guided Discovery Approach on The Descriptive Paragraph Writing Skills of Third Grade Pupils
… discovery approach on the descriptive paragraph writing skills of third grade children.
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