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Philippakos, Zoi A.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2016
Revision is a challenging step of the writing process and students often focus their attention to mechanics or grammar instead of making organizational and meaning changes. It is important for students to critically read and independently evaluate their work when revising. This practitioner article discusses the importance of genre-specific…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Processes, Literary Genres
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Tuck, Jackie – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
A growing body of academic literacies research has enhanced our understanding of university writing as contested, institutionally situated practice with important consequences, particularly for students as they learn to negotiate the writing demands of university study. Less empirical attention has been paid to the practices of subject academics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Discourse, Writing Skills
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Monk, Jonathan – English in Education, 2016
Historical attitudes to literary creativity often focus on it as a genetic or innate characteristic. Ericsson's notion of 'deliberate practice' and Simon & Chase's 'ten-year rule', however, have shown the importance of sustained practice to achieve high-level performance. The iceberg illusion of elite performance leaves observers marvelling at…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Processes, Writing Attitudes, Creativity
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Smith, Kelli Jean K.; Ferris, Sharmila Pixy – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Any communication course requiring a literature review, including, but is not limited to, Communication Research Methods and Communication Theory. Objectives: After completing this activity, students should be able to write better literature reviews by (1) locating a range of resources; (2) identifying a variety of relevant information…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Dining Facilities, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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Huang, Cheng-Wen; Archer, Arlene – London Review of Education, 2017
Research on academic literacies has predominately focused on writing practices in higher education. To account for writing practices in the digital age, this paper emphasizes the importance of extending the focus of academic literacies beyond writing to include multimodal composition. Drawing on social semiotics, we put forward a framework for…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Multimedia Materials, Academic Discourse
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Shen, Yuru – English Language Teaching, 2017
English writing is one of the four indispensable skills that English learners need to master, but unfortunately, many Chinese college students have much difficulty composing clear, concise and coherent essays although they have studied English for at least over six years. To address the problem, the researchers and teachers in China have tried…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Writing Strategies, College Students
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Leigh, S. Rebecca – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2017
In this three-month qualitative study, 36 pre and in-service teachers were invited to create and write poems from four idea bundles (e.g., the mixed bundle, the verbal bundle, the visual bundle, and the arranged bundle) in response to four picture book read alouds that address themes of abandonment (Wild, 2006), homelessness (Wild, 2007),…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Poetry, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Chateauvert, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While the concept of reflection is not new to education, researchers suggest that students be given more space to engage in meaning-making activities (Sambrook & Willmott, 2014). In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis placed in education on self-reflection. In part, because of Donald Schon's (1983, 1987) work on…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Reflection, Mixed Methods Research, Self Efficacy
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Nordness, Philip D.; Hagaman, Jessica L.; Herskovitz, Rebecca; Leader-Janssen, Elizabeth – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
In the area of written expression, students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) typically perform one to two grades below their same age, non-disabled peers. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research on writing interventions to improve these outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a persuasive writing strategy…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Persuasive Discourse, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
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Zhang, Yanfang; Chen, Pengfei; Yu, Tao – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This study aimed at applying English reading and writing strategies' training to improve the low English proficiency students' competence of English reading and writing. It was a quasi-experiment design. In total, 70 non-English major undergraduates at a private university in China participated in the research, 35 students in the experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Writing Strategies, Learning Strategies, Language Proficiency
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan; Kirmizi, Özkan – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The present study was undertaken to measure the metacognitive writing awareness of university-Flevel learners. The participants of the study are 101 students of English Language and Literature, enrolled at a state university in Turkey. The grade level of the students ranges from the first grade to the fourth grade. In order to collect data, a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dunn, Michael – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2018
Many children struggle with writing. As a case study, Jane is a fourth-grade student with a learning disability with writing goals and objectives in her Individual Education Plan. Teachers can use students' recent writing samples and questionnaire responses (e.g., what do you find challenging about writing?) as a guide to find tools and strategies…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Technology Integration, Intervention
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Connor, Carol McDonald; Crowe, Elizabeth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Research to guide text structure interventions for the primary grades is very limited, yet as early as in kindergarten, many state standards increasingly emphasize exposure to challenging expository texts. The purpose of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and promise (or the effects) of three brief text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Amono, Maria; Banchetti, Niccolò – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In this report, we present certain teaching activities employed at the University of Calabria and at the I.T.C. C. Mortati high school. The former were conducted within the English for Basic Academic Skills courses, the latter in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classes for students in the last two years of high school. The grammar and linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Learning Activities, College Second Language Programs, High School Students
Barkel, Ashley Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With Common Core State Standards (CCSS), all students are held to the same high expectations, including students learning English and other learners who may have academic difficulties. Many students learning English have trouble writing and need effective writing strategies to meet the demands the standards present. Ten fourth and fifth grade…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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