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Stout, Roland P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
An oral presentation assignment in a Physical Chemistry course was reimagined as a TED talk. The presentation is part of a larger course project which includes consideration of what traits mark good writing and good speaking that students can emulate. Evidence and observations show that this new format yields improved presentations, enhanced…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings)
Ilhan 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
Holton Brathwaite, Noel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Writing (Composition)
Myatt, Alice J. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Collaborative writing assignments are an essential element of teaching technical and professional writing, and they should be included in online writing instruction (OWI). The COVID-19 pandemic was a drastic interruption of regular teaching practices that had the potential of derailing the practice of assigning online collaborative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Collaborative Writing, Writing Assignments
Nicole Schutte; Zhandi van Zyl – Perspectives in Education, 2023
In this conceptual paper, borne from the experiences of two academic literacy lecturers at the NWU, we ask, regarding elements of assessment, how we can sensibly adapt an intervention-style writing course in a post-COVID higher education context. We propose a course correction model, applicable to academic literacy writing courses, to address the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reflection, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sibel Barcin – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
The fundamental skills in language teaching are reading, listening, speaking and writing. It is important to establish links with other language skill areas in the development of writing skills. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the writing skills of Kyrgyz students studying distance learning at A1 level during the pandemic. 28 Kyrgyz…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Distance Education, COVID-19
Holdinga, Lieke; Janssen, Tanja; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Written Communication, 2021
Source-based writing is a common but difficult task in history and philosophy. Students are usually taught how to write a good text in language classes. However, it is also important to address discipline-specificity in writing, a topic likely to be taught by content teachers. In order to design discipline-specific writing instruction, research…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Grade 11, History Instruction
Alif Mudiono – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study investigated project-based learning approaches for teaching argumentative writing in Indonesian elementary schools. It, therefore, focused on three dimensions of competency: the student's knowledge, ability, and attitude during the learning process. A case study research design with a qualitative approach was adopted to answer the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa; Jovi R. S. Nazareno; Christopher Rappleye – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing is the highest form of thinking, as evidenced by neuroimaging that shows how more neural networks are activated simultaneously during writing than during any other cognitive activity. This book will help teachers understand how the brain learns to write by unveiling 15 stages of thinking that underpin the writing process, along with…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response)
Danielle Bratton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated the efficacy of behavioral skills training (BST) and interteaching in enhancing the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting skills of online graduate learners. Writing skills are foundational to academic success and professional competency, particularly in online graduate programs characterized by learners with…
Descriptors: Applied Behavior Analysis, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Integrating Reading and Writing in Testing Reading Comprehension of the Afghan EFL Language Learners
Noor, Shagofah – Cogent Education, 2021
This study was conducted to evaluate a potential new way of assessing reading comprehension at the college level in Afghanistan. In this study, synthesis writing is evaluated to determine if reading-writing integration can help in assessing the reading comprehension of Afghan sophomore students. Furthermore, a gap-filling activity was used to…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Gernatt, Joshua; Coberly-Holt, Patricia – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2019
Graduate students face writing anxiety and low self-efficacy regarding writing research papers. Holladay (1981) addressed the negative characteristics of anxiety in graduate students by writing: "They are frightened by a demand for writing competency, they fear evaluation of their writing because they think they will be rated negatively, they…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Research Reports
Baker, Jayne; Evans-Tokaryk, Tyler – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
Universities across Canada and elsewhere have a longstanding focus on improving students' writing skills, including for the purpose of fostering better learning. In this paper, we present findings from two sources of data--a discursive analysis and student survey--exploring the impact of writing instruction and support in the context of a required…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Methodology, Courses
Klucevsek, Kristin M. – Across the Disciplines, 2022
Students in the sciences learn to engage with primary research articles as a fundamental part of their discipline, essential to both writing and research. These sources are difficult to navigate, leading students to use (and misuse) these sources in a variety of complex ways. As instructors and researchers, we are aware of these challenges, but…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Student Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Science Education
Luzhen Tang; Kejie Shen; Huixiao Le; Yuan Shen; Shufang Tan; Yueying Zhao; Torsten Juelich; Xinyu Li; Dragan Gaševic; Yizhou Fan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Learners' writing skills are critical to their academic and professional development. Previous studies have shown that learners' self-assessment during writing is essential for assessing their writing products and monitoring their writing processes. However, conducting practical self-assessments of writing remains challenging for…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Formative Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills