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Suzanne Woods-Groves; Margaret M. Flores; Betty Patten; Kinga Balint-Langel; Charles A. Hughes; Taehoon Choi – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2024
The authors of this study examined a virtually delivered multimedia expository writing strategy via a single case multiple-baseline across participants design with three college students enrolled in a postsecondary program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Participants responded to expository essay prompts at the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Multimedia Materials, Essays, Writing (Composition)
Dunn, Michael William; Pogrund, Rona – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2021
Writing can be a challenging task for many students. This study offered 10 ninth-grade students (8 females, 2 males) with visual impairments located in the Western United States the opportunity to learn a mnemonic strategy for argumentative-essay writing called ARGUE: Analyze data; Review keywords and create sentences; Generate a plan; Use your…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Students with Disabilities
Kathryn S. McCarthy; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Aaron D. Likens; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The benefits of writing strategy feedback are well established. This study examined the extent to which adding spelling and grammar checkers support writing and revision in comparison to providing writing strategy feedback alone. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays in Writing Pal, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software
Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Paszek, Joseph; Gorzelsky, Gwen; Hayes, Carol L.; Jones, Edmund – Written Communication, 2020
Using a mixed-methods, multi-institutional design of general education writing courses at four institutions, this study examined genre as a key factor for understanding and promoting writing development. It thus aims to provide empirical validation of decades of theoretical work on and qualitative studies of genre and the nature of genre…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Information Sources, Metacognition, Writing Processes
Karen R. Harris; Young-Suk Kim; Soobin Yim; April Camping; Steve Graham – Grantee Submission, 2023
This randomized controlled trial with first- and second-grade students is the first experimental study addressing long-running disagreements about whether primary grade students should develop transcription and oral language abilities before learning to compose. It is also the first study at these grade levels to teach close reading (using science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Handwriting, Writing Skills
Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Jayathilake, Chitra – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Characterized by specific and rigid boundaries of institutional practices and expectations in the academy, student writing is a synergistic literacy practice where students are required to construct generically diverse texts by yoking concepts with appropriate linguistic resources. This empirical study involving 196 first-year ESL students at a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning
Chairani Resti Ananda; Radiatan Mardiah; Nunung Fajaryani – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
Argumentative writing is a genre of writing that is considered difficult by EFL students at the university level. This study aimed to investigate problems faced by EFL students in writing an argumentative essay and to explain their strategies to overcome the problems. The participants of this study were ten fifth-semester students of the 2023-2024…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fan, Cheng-Yu; Chen, Gwo-Dong – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Evidence indicates that graphic organizers, such as concept maps and argument maps, could help students develop a stronger argumentation ability and build effective argumentative structures. In this study, we designed a computer-aided argumentative essay writing system to assist students in learning structures of argumentation and in enhancing…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Writing Improvement
Walsh, Andrea – CEA Forum, 2019
This article, based on Andrea Walsh's teaching experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focuses on a strategy to inspire students to approach the revision process proactively with imagination and critical insight: envisioning essays as documentary films. It first looks at some central tasks of revision and then explores the…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Collins, Alyson A.; Ciullo, Stephen; Graham, Steve; Sigafoos, Lisa L.; Guerra, Sara; David, Marie; Judd, Laura – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the effectiveness of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) to improve students' ability to write expository essays after reading social studies text. Third-grade general education teachers (N = 14) were randomly assigned by clusters to SRSD or a business as usual control condition. One hundred and eighty consented students…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Essays, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
Tieu, L.T.C.; Baker, John R. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study investigated the effects of using IELTS model essays in conjunction with noticing as a feedback instrument on Vietnamese undergraduates' IELTS Task 2 writing performance. To investigate this, a quasi-experimental design was undertaken. The control group used the course textbook and received traditional writing feedback (i.e. direct,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Essays
Jankens, Adrienne – Composition Forum, 2019
Positioned within our field's work on supporting transfer of writing-related knowledge through careful course design, this article describes the development of a pedagogical intervention designed to help students identify knowledge gaps and pose questions about rhetoric and genre. Below, I tell the story of a 2012 teacher research study that…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Rhetoric, Essays, Freshman Composition
Bickford, Leslie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
Making writing less scary for students and focusing on the messy, recursive nature of writing helps students use the writing process to bring forth the thoughts that might otherwise not find their way into essays. Students who revisit their writing also revisit their thinking and are empowered to cultivate and articulate that thinking in clearer…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement
Conijn, Rianne; Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto; Knight, Simon; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Van Waes, Luuk; van Zaanen, Menno – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Current writing support tools tend to focus on assessing final or intermediate products, rather than the writing process. However, sensing technologies, such as keystroke logging, can enable provision of automated feedback during, and on aspects of, the writing process. Despite this potential, little is known about the critical indicators that can…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Learning Analytics
MacArthur, Charles A.; Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; May, Henry; Potter, Andrew; Van Horne, Sam; Compello, Jill – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a curriculum based on self-regulated strategy instruction in college developmental writing courses. Prior research that had found large effects on the writing quality for essays without sources was extended to include strategies for critical reading and note-taking, writing summary response…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Metacognition, Remedial Instruction, Outcome Measures