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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"writing strategies"”.
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Cognitive writing strategies
… of cognitive strategy instruction in teaching writing. Writing is a process that results in a product. The learning that takes place will be continually developing and changing. Our goal as teachers of writing is to have our students produce quality written products. How does one accomplish …
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DEVELOPING WRITING STRATEGIES FOR LITERATURE AS AN O" LEVEL SUBJECT"
… Reports as a basis and available research in writing and literature in an attempt to identify the skills crucial for the writing of effective literary responses. A writing model has been constructed, based essentially on giving students the opportunity to read and respond aesthetically. …
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Personality types, writing strategies and college basic writers : four case studies
… basic writers at Ball State University and the writing strategies they used. Triangulation of data provided a thick description of the students. Scores from pre- and post-good writing questionnaires and process instruments (process logs and self-evaluations), student journals, student writing, …
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Oral and writing strategies in French second language learning: An action research study
… investigate which L2 learning strategy, oral or writing, is a better introduction of French as a L2. Participants involved in the study were beginning students in an Oral class and in a Writing class. Language performance tests, attitude surveys, interview, and journals were used to collect data. …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of the POW plus TREE and COPS writing strategies
… Harris, Graham, and Mason (2002) note that writing is a highly complex, demanding process. The purpose of writing is to communicate a message. Writers need a strategy or plan to communicate ideas clearly. To be successful and productive at each stage of authoring, it is important for …
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Metacognitive Writing Strategies for Emerging Dancer-Scholars: Uncovering Supportive Links Between Academic Writing and Choreographic Processes
… in dance but limited academic background in writing essays. Writing term papers, with perhaps only dim memories of high school writing instruction to draw from, can pose challenging experiences for such emerging dancer-scholars. While long standing metacognitive reading strategies are …
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Facilitating the cognitive growth of baccalaureate nursing students: using writing strategies for thinking and cognitive development /28 cm
… of baccalaureate nursing students using writing strategies that challenged their thinking. The literature focuses first on the model of the cognitive development of college students as Perry first delineated it (1970) and later modified it (1978; 1981), as well as on how other researchers …
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Investigating the writing strategies of fourth year Libyan university students of English: strategy differences between good and poor writers of English
… an investigation of the composing processes and writing strategies of fourth year Libyan university students majoring in English as a foreign language. The study predominantly adopts a qualitative approach, using a number of research methods, namely think-aloud protocols, semi-structured …
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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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Helping English Language Learners Develop Writing Proficiency Using the Thesis Evidence Model in the High School Social Studies Classroom
… 34 high school grade students responded to a writing prompt used a pre-test evaluation. Students were then guided through a lesson sequence teaching writing strategies based in the Thesis-Evidence model. Upon completing these writing based lessons, students were evaluated again with another …
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Writing Instruction: Students' Perceptions of Its Meaning and Merit
… and weaker writers with regard to previous writing instruction; perceptions of writing assignments; writing strategies; valuing of writing; and benefits of feedback from conferences, peer evaluations, and written comments.
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Visual thinking networking promotes long-term meaningful learning and achievement for 9th grade earth science students
… a new generation of metacognitive learning strategies. Students constructed network diagrams using semantic and figural elements to represent knowledge relationships. The findings indicated the importance of using color in VTN strategies. The use of color promoted the encoding and …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… the creative practice and research involved in writing Stardust and Golden. Here the focus is on how authors re-imagine the Sixties as an age of militant opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription and the rise of a counter culture of challenge to convention and authority. The phrase ‘Writing …
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Analysing Contemporary German-Language Literature through a Translingual-Intermedial Framework
… of language –– to explore how translingual writing strategies enable writers of mixed linguistic backgrounds to push the boundaries of linguistic borders, challenge traditional conceptions of these three themes, and, ultimately, create positive zones of cooperative contact between cultural …
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The Impact of Using AVID and AVID Schoolwide on Achievement, Equity, Access, and Opportunities for High School Students: A Program Evaluation Project
… my research was to determine if the use of AVID strategies had any impact on academic achievement and college and career readiness. Additionally, I evaluated whether AVID school-wide can support all students. The context of this study included AVID Teachers and AVID Coordinators across the United …
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain
… through accretion with the use of a variety of writing strategies such as third person limited omniscient narrator, auto-fiction, mosaic, and disrupted narrative. Other conventions of Creative Non-fiction are used such as dialogue, characterization and plot. Autotopography (photographs) are used …
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Learning strategies used by students of english composition II, semester I 2014 bachelor in english teaching to develop their writing skill, department of foreign languages at the University of El Salvador.
… project addresses the development of the writing skills of students who are learning English as a foreign language. It investigates the strategies that students use to write an essay and the progress they had during the composition II course. As such, it aims to study what writing …
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Fabrication of optical-mode converters for efficient fiber-to-silicon-waveguide couplers
… of the coupler. E-beam exposure doses and writing strategies were optimized to create the tapered silicon waveguides. A fabrication process was developed to form the polymer waveguides without etching the underlying silicon, and a set of marks was created to achieve sub-micron alignment …
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The implementation of the exit slip strategy to examine the advancement of paraphrasing and summarizing Shakespearean text
… were identified in the essay and composition writing of a group of freshman Honors' students. During this study, students were provided with specific strategies to interpret texts so they could begin to understand the author's intended message to the audience. They could then translate those …
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