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Direct linkIlhan Polat; Hakan Dedeoglu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Choosing a writing topic poses a particularly serious challenge for young learners. Topic selection affects all other steps of the writing process. Therefore, the writing topic should be related to a subject that the student knows about, is interested in, and can produce content on. Basing writing on students' immediate environment and experiences…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Narration, Writing Assignments
Download full textKonuk, Sümeyye – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The research purpose was to identify (1) the problems encountered by academic and administrative staff in emails received from students, (2) positive and negative qualities of the authentic emails of higher education students, (3) functional explanations of the academic email, (4) the problems encountered by students in emails received from…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Academic Language, Language Usage
Smith, Kenneth J. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Research suggests that experts and beginners use qualitatively different writing processes when given the same text to write. Throughout their writing, experts tend to create a network of executive, structural, and content problems that they continually refine and coordinate as they bring the text to fruition. Novices, in contrast, tend to focus…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Writing Processes, Elementary Education, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedKemper, Susan – Discourse Processes, 1990
Examines diaries kept by 8 adults (born between 1856 and 1876) over a 70-year period of their lives. Analyzes the complexity of the narrative structure and the cohesion of the text. Finds that the diarists' narratives became structurally more complex across the life span, although they became less cohesive as ambiguous anaphors increased. (KEH)
Descriptors: Adults, Cohesion (Written Composition), Diaries, Discourse Analysis
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Office of Assessment and Evaluation, Salem. – 1998
This official scoring guide for writing presents details of the 6-point scoring system used in Oregon schools for the 1989-99 school year. It list attributes of students' responses to merit a score from 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest) in the areas of ideas/content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and citing sources. (RS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Scoring
Peer reviewedShaw, Jonathan – System, 1995
This paper presents preliminary results from classroom-initiated research using text-graphing to develop metacognitive awareness among English-as-a-Second-Language engineering students writing the literature review section of their master's theses. Results found that text graphing can raise students' awareness of the rhetorical structure of…
Descriptors: Engineering, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
