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Uzawa, Kozue – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Examines the writing and translation processes of second-language learners both in their native and second languages. Results indicate that most students used a "what-next" approach in their writing tasks in both languages and a "sentence-by-sentence" approach in the translation task. Attention patterns in both writing tasks…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries

Chiste, Katherine Beaty; O'Shea, Judith – English Quarterly, 1990
Examines the characteristics of prewriting activities of unsuccessful writers who took the Alberta Universities' Writing Competence Test. Finds that the students' limited and ineffective use of prewriting strategies interferes with their ability to generate and develop ideas in writing a timed essay. (KEH)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Prewriting
Yore, Larry D.; Hand, Brian M.; Florence, Marilyn K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
Written and oral communications and the processes of writing and reading are highly valued within the scientific community; scientists who communicate well are successful in gaining recognition and support from members of their own communities, the research funding agencies, and the wider society. Yet how do scientists achieve this proficiency?…
Descriptors: Technology, Scientists, Writing Strategies, Writing (Composition)
Engemann, Alison J.; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2005
Lucie, a Grade Two classroom teacher, and Kate, a university professor, engaged in an action research study that linked a trait-based writing instruction approach with a genre-focused instruction approach. To capture the experience, fieldnote observations, interviews and samples of students' work were collected. Lucie recognized the need to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning
Mothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C. – Online Submission, 2006
A challenge facing educators is to find ways to arrest and reverse the cumulative deficit in reading experienced by many students with learning disabilities. In this study, we evaluated the effect of a strategy intervention to increase the reading comprehension of eighth grade students with reading disabilities in intact junior high school classes…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Grade 8, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
A Retrospective Analysis of Technology Use Patterns of Students with Autism over a Five-Year Period.

Mirenda, Pat; Wilk, Diana; Carson, Paul – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2000
A study involving 170 British Columbia students with autism found that the majority received technology for educational participation while a smaller number received voice output communication aids; some students received both types of technology. The primary goals for the technology use were related to writing, expressive communication, and…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Autism, Disabilities, Educational Technology
Klein, Perry D. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 2004
This study examined the writing strategies and text characteristics associated with discovering a scientific principle by writing about an experiment. Sixty-four university students (non-science majors) carried out a physics experiment concerning either buoyancy, or the forces acting on a balance scale, then wrote an informal journal-style note…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Scientific Principles, Science Experiments, Physics
Butler, Sydney J.; Bentley, T. Roy – 1990
Lifewriting is a form of autobiographical composition in which the non-expert, or even the beginning writer, tries to capture on paper the raw experiences of a lifetime. The intersections between family history and social or political events provide one set of starting points for the lifewriter who sets out on the neverending journey to capture a…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Lifelong Learning
Saito, Hiroko – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
This study investigated 3 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing teachers' and 39 of their ESL students' attitudes toward feedback and its uses. The results indicated that students preferred teacher feedback over non-teacher feedback, though the three teachers used non-teacher feedback frequently in their classes. (37 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Feedback, Foreign Countries
Butler, Sydney J.; Bentley, T. Roy – 1988
"Lifewriting" provides a different model for the school composition class, a model that changes the traditional images of the student and teacher at work. Lifewriting--the composing of personal stories, anecdotes, and memoirs--has a beneficial effect in that while it begins with personal expression, the dynamics of the lifewriting group…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Wood, Eileen; Willoughby, Teena; Specht, Jacqueline; Porter, Lisa – Computers & Education, 2002
Describes a study conducted at two Canadian universities that surveyed a cross-section of 361 faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students to assess computer availability, experience, attitudes toward computers, and use of computers while engaged in academic writing. Compares advantages and disadvantages of writing on a computer versus written,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Comparative Analysis, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
McCoubrey, Sharon, Ed. – BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, 1993
This serial issue examines the theme of picture books as resources for art production and art response; gives specific project descriptions; and looks at the relationship between words and pictures, and the creative connection between art and language. Articles are: (1) "Editor's View" (Sharon McCoubrey); (2) "The Creative…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Art Education, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Bryson, Mary; Scardamalia, Marlene – 1991
Cognitively-based writing instruction for educationally disadvantaged students is examined, focusing on epistemic writing. The object of epistemic writing is to inquire into a particular topic and to familiarize/persuade the reader with the fruits of the investigation. In reviewing the distinctions between novice and expert writers, two models of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Mothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C.; Struthers, Lynda; Fisher, Heather; Paterson, Karin – 2002
This report discusses the effectiveness of strategy-based writing instruction for adolescents with language-based learning disabilities. The instruction is being provided to Canadian students in grade eight who are at least two grade equivalents below their peers in reading and writing ability. The students are taught a paraphrasing strategy that…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
Thompson, Loraine – 1993
This booklet provides practical exploration of the use of narrative in the classroom with students and in teachers' personal and professional development. The various narrative forms are described in boxes throughout the booklet and include letter writing, storytelling, autobiographical accounts and several others. There are four "Your…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education