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Direct linkQin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Download full textQin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Grantee Submission, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Phillips Galloway, Emily; Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola; Barr, Christopher D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Learning to use language in order to complete source-based writing tasks is a challenge for middle grade writers worthy of additional study, especially given that these tasks are increasingly common in classrooms. Here, we examined the contribution of receptive and productive cross-disciplinary academic language skills to the writing quality of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Language, Language Skills, Content Area Writing
