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Alison Ersheid – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For decades, colleges and universities have been grappling with the task of closing the readiness gap for underprepared writers entering the higher education system. Traditional developmental education models are costly and inefficient at best, and detrimental to the matriculation of students at worst. Bridge programs have had moderate success,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Writing Improvement
Stephanie Millett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing apprehension is a phenomenon that manifests as fear and avoidance of evaluated writing that can affect students' college and career choices. Writing apprehension has been shown to negatively correlate with self-efficacy, which is one of four forms of learned resourcefulness that have been shown to help an individual maintain emotional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Attitudes, Anxiety, Fear
Elizabeth Presto – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Young children engage in multimodal written expression. The research in this study explores the spaces that were created, and the stories created by children in an after-school comic club. The club utilized the Writer's Workshop model to support the Being a Writer program that is used in the Ocean View School District (Ocean View School District…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Writing, Writing Attitudes, Freehand Drawing
Frandsen, Gitte – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this dissertation, I present two studies on transnational, multilingual undergraduate students which focus on students' rich, complex communication patterns across contexts. First, I examine the linguistic, literate, rhetorical, and cultural resources they deploy to make meaning across non-academic contexts as they take care of everyday tasks,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Undergraduate Students
Kenneth J. Eiker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores children's authors' experiences of and motivations for including religious and spiritual themes in their picture books. It investigates the intricate connection between authors' backgrounds, including their cultural, spiritual, or religious, and familial roots, and how these elements permeate their writing. The study…
Descriptors: Authors, Picture Books, Motivation, Background
Morgan E. Buchs – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Dual-credit programs, also known in the state of Ohio as the College-Credit-Plus program, is an initiative across the United States to provide another method for high school students--and sometimes even younger students--to earn postsecondary credit before graduating from high school. This project investigates the experience of dual-credit…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition
Brigid Ovitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Because writing is complex and draws upon so many psychological and cognitive processes, learning to write is even more challenging for students with disabilities than it is for typically developing students. Nonetheless, writing research in the field of education and special education lags behind that of many other academic subjects. The body of…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Dialogs (Language), Writing Research, Writing Achievement
Lee, Yvonne Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Researchers of graduate student success have recently begun engaging in studies aimed at establishing a better understanding of what practices best assist in graduate student retention and degree completion. Simultaneously, Writing Center scholars have been making a concerted effort to undertake empirical research focused on the everyday work of…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Graduate Students, Writing Attitudes
Tania Maria Cruz Cordero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing motivation has been deemed a critical aspect of the writing process because motivation affects how students engage with the writing process, how much effort and time they exert in the tasks, and the quality of their written products (Graham, 2018). Writing motivation has been the focus of recent studies on how to improve the discouraging…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Writing Processes, Learner Engagement
Corinne Alice Nulton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the prevalence of school-induced literacy shaming in first-year college writers while examining how these experiences have shaped the students' attitudes towards writing in ways that impacted their academic trajectories. Using a qualitative approach, data was collected through surveys, narrative prompts, and…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College Freshmen, Writing Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
Amr Rabie-Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within the past few decades, notable contributions have been made in heritage language education research that continued to gain ground in language pedagogy and teaching practices (e.g., Davila, 2017; Valdes, 2000; Fishman, 2001; Kelleher, 2010; Polinsky & Kagan 2007). This dissertation is guided by translanguaging and social identity, two…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abby Rose Waldorf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research was to determine self-efficacy levels of Secondary English Education pre-service teachers attending two public universities concerning writing and the teaching of writing. The study found that pre-service teachers were confident and identified as writers, but they felt uncertain as teachers of writing. Past teachers'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers
Leah Ann Bryars – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The ability to communicate well through writing has never been more critical. Writing is a necessary skill to make a living and a "life." Even before beginning school, children try to make themselves known by writing. Graves (1983) writes that a child's marks on paper-or a wall-say to the world, "I am" (p. 3). Children are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Apprehension, Student Motivation
Thackeray, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to build on recent survey research on writing instruction to examine both the types and extent of teachers' preparation to teach writing and what teachers' writing instruction currently looks like, including the evidence-based practices teachers use, the amount of time spent teaching writing, and the types of writing…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Writing Instruction, Methods Courses, Evidence Based Practice
Nouf Fahad Alshreif – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study investigated multilingual writers' prior L2 writing knowledge transfer and how it relates to multilingual writers' metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulation. Specifically, this study aimed to 1) explore how multilingual writers transfer their prior L2 writing knowledge, 2) investigate multilingual writers' metacognitive…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Undergraduate Students, Metacognition
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