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Višnja Pavicic Takac – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Inspired by Rebecca Oxford's thought-provoking reflections on language learning strategies, and particularly her orchestra metaphor on how the strategies work together, I conducted a study that seeks to understand how non-native writers employ, configure, sequence and combine individual writing strategies when creating a text in the target…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Collaborative Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
Hier, Bridget O.; Eckert, Tanya L.; Datchuk, Shawn M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This descriptive study examined differences in children's text production as a function of the advanced planning strategies they used. A sample of 117 third-grade children engaged in independent advanced planning and then composed a compare-and-contrast essay both before and after receiving a six-week text production fluency intervention. Analyses…
Descriptors: Planning, Writing Strategies, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Students
Alexander, Patricia A.; Fusenig, Jannah; Schoute, Eric C.; Singh, Anisha; Sun, Yuting; van Meerten, Julianne E. – Written Communication, 2023
In this article, we share what we learned about undergraduates' struggles in writing quality summaries, comparison texts, and argumentative essays that were components of a unique course, Learning How to Learn. This course was designed to address core psychological issues that impede optimal learning for students from all majors, many of whom are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Academic Language
Özdemir, Osman; Karafil, Burcu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore the topic selection tendencies of university students among a given topic list and to reveal what reasons students had in deciding on the topic to write about. The study was designed as a case study. 37 students studying at a state university in Konya Province, Turkey were determined as a study group. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Essays, Writing (Composition)
Madeleine Mejia – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
This qualitative study investigated the influence of Metawriting, or "writing about writing," on fifth-grade students' knowledge of writing and proficiency in composing informative essays. Using a Think-TalkWrite model, students explored their existing writing knowledge and experiences, analyzed their essays using genre-specific tools,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Process Approach (Writing), Writing Instruction, Metacognition
Marwan Abdulmohsen A. Almuhaysh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the effectiveness of writing instruction within the Saudi EFL context, and its alignment with students' future needs and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 goals. Two schools located in two different regions with different disciplinary foci were selected for this study. Three study tools were identified to assess the writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Strategies, Foreign Countries
Reese Butterfuss; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The present study examined the extent to which adaptive feedback and just-in-time writing strategy instruction improved the quality of high school students' persuasive essays in the context of the Writing Pal (W-Pal). W-Pal is a technology-based writing tool that integrates automated writing evaluation into an intelligent tutoring system. Students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Reese Butterfuss; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Danielle S. McNamara – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
The present study examined the extent to which adaptive feedback and just-in-time writing strategy instruction improved the quality of high school students' persuasive essays in the context of the Writing Pal (W-Pal). W-Pal is a technology-based writing tool that integrates automated writing evaluation into an intelligent tutoring system. Students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
McKnight, Lucinda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The teaching of writing in secondary English subjects in Australia, as in other countries including England and the United States, has become increasingly formulaic. Pedagogies including direct instruction, modelling, scaffolding, and genre-based approaches involve the implementation of formulas for writing sentences, paragraphs, and entire…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education, English Instruction
Abolhasani, Hamideh; Golparvar, Seyyed Ehsan; Robatjazi, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Research on integrated writing tasks is increasing, while there is a paucity of empirical findings on graph-based writing, as one type of these tasks. The present study purports to examine the contribution of L2 writing anxiety to university students' graph writing performance and the strategies they employ for these tasks. The participants of…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Writing Apprehension, Writing (Composition)
Zhan Wang; Ming Ming Chiu – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Although many studies modelled writing quality by analysing basic skills (spelling, grammar, etc.), few focused on top-down compositional strategies at the discourse level. We propose that using both narrative and argument discourse modes in an argumentative essay (a multi-discourse mode [MDM] strategy) capitalizes on their complementary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Schenck, Andrew – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2023
Past research of rhetoric has relied on simple binary comparisons between groups that either do, or do not, possess a cultural trait. While countries like Korea and the UAE may share cultural values such as an acceptance of unequal power relationships (power distance) and a preference for group action (collectivism), these traits vary in degrees…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Rhetoric, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Beck, Sarah W.; Godley, Amanda J. – American Journal of Education, 2023
Purpose: This study draws on genre theory to analyze the linguistic and discursive presentation of the self in successful US college application essays. Research Methods: We used qualitative discourse analysis informed by the systemic functional linguistic concepts of field, tenor, and mode to analyze 20 sample application essays identified as…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Essays, Admission Criteria
Michael, Elizabeth Loftin; Ray, Amber; McKeown, Debra – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Strategy instruction is an effective method for improving the writing skills of students who struggle when writing. It is critical when implementing strategy instruction that assessment of the strategy takes place in addition to assessment of writing. Practitioners should consider strategy assessment to ensure student proper use of strategy. This…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Evaluation
Omid Mallahi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The present study explores the status of argumentative essay writing strategy use and identifies the problems a convenient sample of Iranian EFL learners face while writing argumentative essays in English. Adopting a complementary process-genre approach and a mixed-methods research design, the researcher designed a genre-specific argumentative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Essays, Persuasive Discourse