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Cozza, Vanessa – Composition Studies, 2020
This article describes a course design that offers an innovative approach to using client-based projects (CBPs) in technical and professional writing. It shows how teachers can incorporate CBPs in hybrid or fully virtual instruction, adapt it for a quarter or semester, and tailor it to meet students' needs. While there are standard writing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Technical Writing, Curriculum Design, Business Communication
Pacello, James – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Many developmental writing courses in colleges focus on teaching students isolated skills, with little emphasis on how such skills are applicable to the actual process of writing. This article focuses on capturing the perspectives of students enrolled in a developmental writing course designed around an explicit process-oriented pedagogy. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Basic Writing, Student Attitudes, Writing Skills
Graham, Steve; Skar, Gustaf B.; Falk, Daroon Y. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
A sample of 1049 Norwegian teachers in grades 1-3 were surveyed about how they taught writing as well as their preparation and efficacy to do so. Although there was moderate variability in their response to survey items, most teachers provided students with a multi-faceted writing program. Teachers indicated students typically spent 20 min a day…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Primary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Silva, Pedro – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
There are several technological tools which aim to support first year students' challenges, especially when it comes to academic writing. This paper analyses one of these tools, Wiley's AssignMentor. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework was used to systematise this analysis. The paper showed an alignment between the tools'…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Assignments, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition
Kitchen, Veronica – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
As experiential learning becomes more central to undergraduate education, we must find ways to use it in large classes and to teach students how to learn from experiences. This article uses a 2-year study of student perceptions of learning from short, in-class games and simulations to show that these active learning activities can be used to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Undergraduate Students, Educational Games, Simulation
Sowell, Jimalee; Gautam, Bishwa Raj – English Teaching Forum, 2021
Second-language learners increasingly need effective writing skills in English for academic and professional purposes, as well as for personal and social purposes. To date, peace education (PE) activities in the English language classroom have mostly focused on speaking. This article presents an activity that can help fill the gap in the lack of…
Descriptors: Peace, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Special Purposes
Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
This article offers readers 12 teaching innovations introduced at the Association for Business Communication's 86th annual meeting held online in October 2021. This "My Favorite Assignment" 22nd edition introduces readers to classroom-ready ideas in analysis, critical thinking, and business writing. Assignment support…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Business Administration Education, Assignments, Videoconferencing
Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Zhang, Dongbing – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students' writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Obaya V., Adolfo E.; Osorio G., Carlos; Vargas, Yolanda Marina – Online Submission, 2020
Techniques are needed to train students in "writing to learn", whose main goal is to "learn to write". This work aims to exemplify how writing can be a teaching learning technique in an example in Chemistry to develop a correct understanding of the preparation of molar solutions in the laboratory. It is essential that this is…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Pribadi, Benny Agus; Susilana, Rudi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The study is intended to expose mind mapping used as strategy for learning which is able to assist students to write their writing assignments. Thirty students who registered in the Teacher Qualification Improvement Program of Universitas Terbuka (UT) was involved as the participants in this present study. The participants had to follow the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
Sadruddin, Munir Moosa – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The phenomenological case study aimed to unearth the reasons that influence university students to plagiarize assignments. 67 participants were selected for semi-structured interviews, from the Faculty of Education of a public university, located in Karachi, Pakistan. The obtained data were analyzed through thematic analysis. Findings uncovered…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Case Studies, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes
Zajic, Matthew Carl; Solari, Emily Jane; McIntyre, Nancy Susan; Lerro, Lindsay; Mundy, Peter Clive – Grantee Submission, 2021
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate heterogeneous writing skills that are generally lower than their typically developing (TD) peers and similar to peers with attention difficulties like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Recent evidence suggests children with ASD spend less time engaging in writing tasks…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Oravi?an, Alexandru; Chitez, Madalina; Bercuci, Loredana; Rogobete, Roxana – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Learner corpora of written texts from academic writing assignments provide a practical resource for students, particularly in fostering academic writing skills. One such corpus is the newly available ROGER (Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres), a bilingual comparable corpus containing learner discipline-specific academic writing data in Romanian…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Academic Language, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure
Ivanova, Rossitza – TESOL Journal, 2019
Having opportunities to write about their cultures and identities validates and engages students of English as a second language (ESL) by giving them a voice and a platform to promote ideas and values that the dominant society may marginalize (Christensen, 2000; Cummins, 2001; Cummins & Early, 2011). Identity-based pedagogies, however, tend to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students, Writing Assignments
Williams, Julie Ann Stuart; Schutts, Joshua; Gallamore, Kristine; Amaral, Nicholas – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This article examines a manageable approach that provides students with significant opportunities to write and improve their writing over time in an introductory quantitative business course. The study examines six elements of written communication skills, as evidenced by assessment data from memorandum assignments administered following…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Business Skills