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Stoudt, Sara – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
To paraphrase John Tukey, the beauty of working with data is that you get to "play in everyone's backyard." A corollary to this statement is that working with data necessitates collaboration. Although students often learn technical workflows to wrangle and analyze data, these workflows may break down or require adjustment to accommodate…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Communication Skills, Writing Strategies, Writing Processes
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Mik Fanguy; Jamie Costley; Matthew Courtney; Kyungmee Lee – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The present study (n = 357) investigates the effects of collaborative note-taking behaviors on learning performance and note quality. To conceptualize collaborative note-taking, the present study introduces the collaborative encoding-storage paradigm, where collaborative writing behaviors are viewed as types of collaborative encoding and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Writing Skills
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Sheffield, Jenna Pack – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2020
Search engine optimization (SEO), or the set of practices involved in attaining a high ranking in search engine results, is a web writing skill that requires more attention in business communication pedagogy, because SEO helps businesses attract customers. This article presents the results of interviews with seven SEO experts on SEO best practices…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Business Communication, Expertise, Web Sites
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Annamalai, Nagaletchimee – Teaching English with Technology, 2016
The following is a qualitative case study investigating the writing approaches that are evident when a group of ESL students were to complete their narrative writing task in the "Facebook" environment. Six students and a teacher interacted in the "Facebook" environment to revise and improve the quality of their essays. Data in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Writing (Composition), Social Media
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Houston, Cynthia R. – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
Reflective practice is an important skill that teachers must develop to be able to assess the effectiveness of their teaching and modify their instructional behavior. In many education programs reflective narratives, which are often part of teaching portfolios, are intended to assess students' abilities in these areas. Research on reflectivity in…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reflection, Writing Processes, Content Analysis
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DeFauw, Danielle L. – Reading Horizons, 2017
High-quality writing instruction needs to permeate elementary students' in- and outside-of-school experiences. The aim of this research was to explore how teaching writing to parents may support home-school literacy connections. This qualitative case study explored parents' experiences in interactive writing sessions. The descriptive coding and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Oral Reading, Pictorial Stimuli, Elementary School Students
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Cook, Kathleen B.; Bennett, Katie E. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Proficiency in writing increases opportunities in higher education, employment, and social relationships. Many students in the United States, however, are struggling writers. In particular, the writing performance of students with disabilities in secondary grades continues to lag behind grade level peers. The purpose of this article was to review…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Intervention, High School Students
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Spencer, Vicky G.; Evmenova, Anya S.; Boon, Richard T.; Hayes-Harris, Laura – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the published research-based strategies used in content area instruction for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Twenty-eight (N = 28) studies published from 2000-2012 that met the criteria for inclusion were located, reviewed, and synthesized. Findings revealed the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Teaching Methods
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de Courcy, Michele; Smilevska, Jovanka – Babel, 2012
Research holds that, for bilingual children, a strong establishment in one language not only develops skills in that language, but also facilitates the development of a second language. The participants for this research were six nine-year-old children who were being educated in their first language, Macedonian, and also in English. This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Children, Bilingual Education
Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper looked into the interplay between language and culture based on the metatext categories utilized by the writers in three speech communities: Philippines, Iran, and Taiwan. Specifically, it answered the following subproblems: (1) What metatext categories exist in the results-and-discussion section of ESL/EFL research articles written in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning