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Margaret E. Weaver; Kailyn Shartel Hall; Tracey A. Glaessgen – Journal of Basic Writing, 2022
Despite the push for all institutions of higher learning to embrace a corequisite model for writing instruction, there is limited evidence that suggests this model is desirable for all students. This study seeks to expand our understanding of the characteristics of students enrolled in Basic Writing at a 4-year comprehensive university, and the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Required Courses, Student Characteristics
Amanda Sladek – Journal of Basic Writing, 2022
This article discusses a method of grammar feedback in Basic Writing that asks students to determine the extent of grammar feedback the instructor provides on their writing. Student-directed grammar feedback acknowledges students' agency and ownership of their own languaging and aligns with translingual writing pedagogy. Drawing on students'…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Grammar
LaFollette, Kristin – Journal of Basic Writing, 2021
The Dada and Surrealist movements are known for producing work that challenges reader-viewers' perceptions of reality. These movements also prompted creators to experiment with unexpected mediums and materials, and this can be seen through the intersection of visual art and writing. This essay emphasizes the importance of an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Art Expression, Interdisciplinary Approach, Art Activities
Hite, Joshua A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) is recognized as a leader in Basic Writing reform for community colleges due to their Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). The features Adams et al. adapted from various programs to better support CCBC students, particularly the central features of mainstreaming and acceleration, have helped reinvent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Two Year College Students, Writing Instruction
Bartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
Wood, Susan – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
If assessment is about improving learning and facilitating better teaching through research and helping students learn what higher education purports to value, then the often-invisible institutional barriers that do not always embrace the ways in which classroom assessment can teach an institution about student learning within individual…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Basic Writing, College Students, Writing Attitudes
Baez, Elizabeth; Carlo, Rosanne – Journal of Basic Writing, 2021
The authors discuss their process of actively working to generate interest among graduate students and faculty to change approaches to Basic Writing pedagogy, emphasizing personal writing and antiracist pedagogies at College of Staten Island CUNY, a large public university. The authors argue that master's level coursework and faculty professional…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Student Teachers, Masters Programs, Professional Development
Shuyun Han; Zhaoli Zhang; Hai Liu; Weiliang Kong; Zengcan Xue; Taihe Cao; Jiangbo Shu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Online learning democratizes and provides flexibility in accessing education, but it also places greater demands on students' self-regulated learning strategies. Previous studies have explored the important impact of effort regulation on academic performance. However, there remains more to explore on the dynamics of effort regulation among…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Self Management
Caouette, Becky L. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2019
The author argues that significant inroads in the destigmatization of basic writing courses and students can be made when students are asked to choose not only which FYW course they believe best meets their needs (directed self-placement, or DSP) but also to choose from among a variety of courses (including corequisite courses, particularly those…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Student Placement, Course Selection (Students)
Annie S. Mendenhall – Journal of Basic Writing, 2023
This essay describes Open Admissions in the South during postsecondary desegregation, providing a comparative analysis of policies and debates in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia. Statewide Open Admissions policies emerged in the 1960s as part of superficial efforts to comply with desegregation but were ineffective; consequently, they were…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Postsecondary Education, School Desegregation, Educational History
Dean, Ann C. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2019
After eliminating a developmental writing course and creating an accelerated "Studio" composition course for basic writers, I investigated these students' needs (uninterrupted time, quiet spaces, social support, and academic help) and the resources that met those needs. Qualitative analysis of interviews with forty-nine students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Student Needs, Freshman Composition, College Freshmen
Suh, Emily; Jensen, Darin – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
This article examines transdisciplinarity in developmental education and Basic Writing in the context of externally-driven developmental education reforms. We report on a pilot study survey of 143 developmental educators regarding their professional identity, engagement, and resilience. Respondents identified professional roles and interactions…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Resilience (Psychology), Professional Identity
Leow, Christine; Rho, Yun Jin; Metusalem, Ross; Kasper, Sara – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2020
A consistent challenge of implementing blended learning is the support that students should receive when using online courseware outside of class time. For blended learning to be successful in terms of student learning, the online courseware would need to be able to support the learning of students outside of class time. An interactive, digital…
Descriptors: Courseware, Writing Achievement, Basic Writing, Blended Learning
Alemu, Melkamu – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2020
This research was aimed at fostering students' idea generating abilities via the implementation of pre-writing strategies. The study adopted an action research design. The first phase involved problem identification and causes of the problems through focus group discussion and classroom observation. After identifying the challenges, systematically…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Computer Science Education, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
Suh, Emily K.; McGee, Barrie E.; Owens, Sam – Journal of Basic Writing, 2021
In the hopes of deepening Basic Writing instructors' critical awareness of their authority in assigning meaning to student experience, we present a case study of two adult-arrival immigrant students. We explore the ways that writing instructors and tutors encourage students' personal narratives of persistence--rather than actual persistence…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Immigrants, Personal Narratives, Student Experience