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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"writing teachers"”.
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First-Year Writing Teachers' Emotions and Grammar Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
This dissertation studies how first-year writing teachers' experiences learning grammar impact their teaching of and responses to the topic of grammar. Scholars like Francis Christenson and Martha Kolln agree that some knowledge of grammar helps students' rhetorical acuity but not when taught with …
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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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Teaching Writing: Exemplary Teachers Describe their Instruction
… study examined how exemplary 11th grade English teachers described their writing instruction. The seven teacher participants were selected for the study after receiving a "highly effective" evaluation and being identified by their principal, an assistant principal, and a department leader as …
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Confronting and Understanding Factors of Teacher Turnover: A Deep-rooted Phenomenon Employing an Autoethnographic Perspective
… the acts of journaling, coaching, and narrative writing, teachers can better understand influences of culture on their beliefs, values, attitudes, and decisions – especially in regards to actions of movement from one setting to another. The findings indicate that beliefs, values, attitudes, and …
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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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From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom
… Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom," examines the disconnect that characterizes much of the discussion of reflective writing in community writing studies and argues for the potential of reflexivity as a concept to further …
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Basic Writing, Binaries, and Bridges: Difference and Power in the Production and Reception of Representations of Students
… 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, representations of students vary with some students perceived as the …
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Impact of Contract Learning on Learning to Write in an EAP Class: Case Studies of Four International Graduate Students' Experience
… revealed that the individual students' writing needs were significantly different depending on their educational backgrounds and prior writing experiences, and that contract learning could be an effective tool to address these diverse writing needs and facilitate the students' learning …
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How do Teachers Understand and Act on policy Directives to Close the Gender Achievement Gap in Writing Present in State Test Scores?
… a group of 9, predominately white, middle-school writing teachers thought about struggling student writers and made sense of national and district policy mandates to close the racial and gender achievement gaps present in state test scores. Data from focus group discussions and one-on-one …
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Understanding the Role of Personality Type Theory in the High School Composition Class
… the final product. Inherent in the belief that writing is a process is also the belief that all writers approach writing using different processes that are characteristic of their personality type. Because existing studies focus on the college freshman writing student, little has been done …
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"It takes a lot out of you": ethnography of secondary English teachers' writing pedagogy
This study was conducted in two case-study teachers’ public middle school classrooms in south Louisiana and a survey in three public school districts. A qualitative research focus with the research design taken from work of Michael Patton’s (2002) Qualitative Research Evaluation Methods and James …
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Variation in mental models of text as a function of genre
… text?"" As early as the turn of last century writing teachers used text genre to classify textual styles in rhetoric textbooks. Recently researchers have suggested that the characteristics of mental models formed from one text genre would be different from the mental models formed from another …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996, is directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and evaluation …
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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
Voice is an integral part of writing instruction, and over half of state writing assessments include voice on scoring rubrics; yet, there is a dearth of research on voice and writing instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school …
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
When writing teachers enter the classroom, they often bring with them a deep faith in the power of literacy to rectify social inequalities and improve their students’ social and economic standing. It is this faith—this hope for change—that draws some writing teachers to locations of social and …
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Teaching Writing for Students with Learning Disabilities in an Inclusive Classroom Setting: A Curriculum Development Project
… with learning disabilities often struggle with writing. They lack the appropriate strategies to use while writing, which leaves them frustrated and unwilling to continue writing. Teachers need to find strategies that will help their students become more engaged and excited about their writing. …
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The Art in Teaching Writing
… of the study was to determine how exceptional writing teachers utilize visual images in their teaching of writing. Specifically, the researcher was interested to discover how drawing might be used as a learning tool in the various stages of the writing process. Nine elementary teachers - …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed as inherently democratic for individuals and nations, and are promised to deliver economic …
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Out of the Shadows: Rethinking Response Through the Instructor -Led Peer Conference
… study of the practices of responding to student writing in composition classrooms. It argues that the primary value of response lies not in the evaluation or correction of student texts, but instead in the opportunities it presents for the dialogic shaping of writers and their writing practices …
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