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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"writing students"”.
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Investigating Community in the Work of First-Year Core Writing Students
… and the way that community awareness influences writing. However, few studies consider how these factors overlap and influence each other within a multidisciplinary framework. This study takes a step towards filling that research gap by investigating the writing practices of students in …
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Assessing the Feasibility of Online Writing Support for Technical Writing Students
… unites two seemingly unrelated fields, writing centers and technical writing, to study the feasibility of creating an online technical writing resource. Despite prolonged attention to multiliteracies and collaboration in both subfields, writing centers and technical writing do not …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and develop new modes of meaning making outside of solely alphabetic literacy. Composition textbooks today, both traditional and Open Educational Resources (OER), become …
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Curb Cuts for Writing: Students with Learning Disabilities' Perceptions as Learners and Writers using Assitive Technology
… software holds great promise in supporting the writing process for students with learning disabilities. This thesis reports on a qualitative study that examined eight students’ self-perceptions as learners and writers using word prediction software. Participants were purposefully recruited from …
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Common Errors of Two Contemporary Classrooms: A Capstone
… common of grammatical errors made by first-year writing students. Includes a case study, results, and analysis.</p>
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"Racism is a misunderstanding": Rhetorically listening to white students' performances of race
… into the classroom in order to encourage students with differing common senses to work toward mutual understanding.</p><p>The dissertation is based on an empirical multivocal study in which white first year writing students and teachers were asked to comment on a racial text, reflect on …
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Basic Writing, Binaries, and Bridges: Difference and Power in the Production and Reception of Representations of Students
… produce powerful, damaging representations of students. Those representations of students affect representations of teachers, writing instruction, and English studies as a whole. Damaging representations of students come from competing definitions of literacy. Because literacy definitions vary, …
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Integrating technology into the 2nd grade writing curriculum
… of integrating technology into the second-grade writing curriculum. The second grade class was in a middle class suburban town and consisted of 23 children. Students composed a type written fairy tale, created <em>I Am</em> poems on the computer, wrote while listening to classical music, and …
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Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition
… and MLA citations among multilingual college students. It is an example of action research that began Fall Quarter 2013. The study conducted at Eastern Washington University in an English Composition for Multilingual Writers class involved students from Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, …
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A Holistic Comparison of the Writing Abilities of First-Grade Students who Attended Either Full-Day or Half-Day Kindergarten
… have been conducted to assess and compare writing proficiency of full-day and half-day students. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in the writing scores of first grade students who attended either a full-day or half-day kindergarten program the previous year. …
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The Effects Of Journal Writing On Student Attitudes And Performance In Problem Solving
… This study investigated the practice of using writing activities in mathematics to improve student attitudes and performance in problem solving. The classroom teacher supplemented traditional mathematics instruction with daily problem solving activities and affective journal writing. Students …
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The effects of the process approach on writing apprehension and writing quality among ESL students at university level in Malaysia
… (i.e. traditional and process approach) on writing apprehension among ESL students, and also the effect of the process approach on the overall quality and length of their writing. Students enrolled in Written Communication 1 course at the National University of Malaysia were chosen as the …
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Influences of an integrated teaching model and selected background characteristics on developmental studies student achievement in a community college
… persistence in college and that poorly prepared students are less likely to persist. The effect of counseling on underprepared students was investigated because this form of active involvement was considered a key element in the retention of developmental studies students in open-access community …
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Modernizing the Integrated Approach: A Dynamic Teaching Method Using Podcasts and Multimedia Content
… develop academic skills for adult international students, specifically those with the goal of attending an American university. Through this integrated approach that combines all of the essential language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), students will build confidence and thus …
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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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Process-writing instruction in one teacher's classes and its impact on the writing of her seventh grade students
… of the project was to determine whether process-writing instruction in the classroom was improving one group of seventh grade language arts students' writing. Students in three classes with the same language arts teacher were involved in the study. Over the course of the first three marking …
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Do Students in the Fifth-Grade Benefit from the Writing Workshop with Regard to their Scores on the New York State Fifth-Grade Writing Test?
… in classrooms today with regards to teaching writing. A traditional approach to teaching writing might include using a grammar textbook and/or a workbook. A holistic approach to teaching writing believes that students learn to write by writing. Students move through the entire writing process, …
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Writing their way to the university: An investigation of Chinese high school students' preparation for writing in English in high schools, cram schools, and online
… from activity theory, I investigate how Chinese students prepared themselves for undergraduate studies in U.S. universities in terms of English writing from three perspectives: English writing instruction in high schools, private supplementary tutoring (PST) in English writing in cram schools, …
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Mapping Critical Connections: Tracing Undergraduates' Literate Lives
… a growing body of research has focused on the writing students do in their homes, communities, unofficial spaces of school, and the workplace (see Finders, Camitta, Mahiri, Moje), studies have largely neglected the complex synergistic and conflicting relationships between students' …
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Basic writing without basic writers
In this dissertation, I address Basic Writing’s legacy of ascribing deficient identities to students. I argue that there is no such thing as a “basic writer” and that the term is an unwanted inheritance of a historically inequitable system of higher education. This argument begins with a critique …
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