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Lamos, Steve – College English, 2009
When scholars write about their research in writing programs' archives, they often face the ethical question of whether to name the administrators who were involved in documents. The author identifies and provides examples of three basic orientations to this issue, which he calls overt-historical, covert-qualitative, and hybrid-institutional.…
Descriptors: Archives, Ethics, Writing Research, Administrators
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Jones, Ed – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
This study of 118 students who placed into basic skills sections of College English suggests that students' self-beliefs may be a particularly important predictor of success in weak writers in first-semester courses. Two types of writing self-efficacy scales--a writing tasks/skills scale and an approach-to-writing scale--were developed to follow…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, College English, Writing Skills, Self Efficacy
Shor, Ira – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2009
This essay responds to Jane Danielewicz's and Peter Elbow's recent piece on contract grading in "College Composition and Communication" (December 2009). I discuss the similarities of their approach to my own contract process, finding that we share a quantitative/performative method for grading. I also explore our differences. While they guarantee…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Writing (Composition), Grading, Stakeholders
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Alber-Morgan, Sheila R.; Hessler, Terri; Konrad, Moira – Education and Treatment of Children, 2007
Proficiency with written expression is critical for students' academic success. Unfortunately, writing presents a challenge for both students and teachers. Recent data suggest that many students in U.S. schools fail to meet even the most basic writing standards. And even when students receive effective (i.e., evidence-based) writing instruction,…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Processes, Generalization, Writing Skills
Pine, Nancy – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
This article explores the particular challenges and possibilities of service learning pedagogy for basic writers. Because a number of scholars of service learning and basic writing (Adler-Kassner, Arca, and Kraemer) are concerned primarily with developing underprepared students' academic literacies, I investigated how the students in a service…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Service Learning, Writing Instruction, College Science
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Judith J. Brilliant – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2005
Developmental writing programs often include a small number of students who seem unable to respond to instruction and to acquire sufficient writing skills to move on. Many common writing difficulties reflect ambivalence about expression. A core issue is that expression is related to trust in the anticipated response to what is expressed. An…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing Skills, Basic Writing
Rigolino, Rachel; Freel, Penny – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2007
In 1996, the State University of New York at New Paltz developed the Supplemental Writing Workshop Program for its basic writing students in response to public pressure to discontinue the offering of so-called remedial writing courses at four-year institutions. Our primary purpose in this article is to describe the design of the SWW Program, which…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing (Composition), Graduation Rate, Writing Workshops
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McCurdy, Merilee; Skinner, Christopher; Watson, Steuart; Shriver, Mark – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Many students have difficulty in educational and employment settings because they have failed to master basic writing skills. Multiple-baseline across-tasks designs were used to evaluate the effects of the Comprehensive Writing Program (CWP), a multicomponent intervention, on the writing performance of all students (n = 17) from 3 9th-grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sentences, Basic Writing, Learning Disabilities
Bennett-Kastor, Tina – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2005
Forty-four students at a mid-sized urban university were given a pseudo-word spelling test to explore the relationship between their spelling ability and their placement in college writing courses. Half the students required a developmental writing course and half took college-level classes. Number of correct (i.e., orthographically possible)…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Basic Writing, Learning Disabilities, Spelling
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Accardi, Steven; Davila, Bethany – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2007
For years, educators have approached college writing from three distinct pedagogies: composition studies, basic writing, and ESL. But now as these classrooms have diversified, mixed, and blended, separated pedagogies are no longer effective. In other words, these three fields (each with its own journals and conferences) have the same common…
Descriptors: College English, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Priemer, Burkhard; Ploog, Maria – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
The findings of two studies with students doing research with the Internet about topics in science are reported. The focus is on students' methods of text production when using external web-based information and their learning outcomes. In a first exploratory study, the computer-based text production of 45 students was analysed using log files.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Writing Skills, Internet, Followup Studies
Stallings, Thresa E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study was to describe the role of teacher knowledge in the instructional methods of a community college developmental literacy instructor and determine in what ways that knowledge may have impacted the perceptions of the student participants regarding their authority over their academic progress in the class. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Homework, Basic Writing, Group Discussion, Teacher Characteristics
Haneline, Douglas – 1994
Students in a basic writing course at Ferris State University, an open-admissions, career-technical institution, are required to buy "The Family in America," a casebook in the Opposing Viewpoints Series. The book is suitable for a student who is struggling to write on a high school level and does not have the basic educational background…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Needs, Writing Improvement
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Maher, Jane – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Contains the first chapter of a new biography of an influential writing teacher, Mina Shaughnessy, who was a founder of the "Journal of Basic Writing". (PA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Biographies, Higher Education, Scholarship
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Purves, Alan C. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Critiques the metaphors out of which basic writing has emerged and looks jocularly at new possibilities. Suggests that with the new technologies of writing, all are at a novice level and need to rethink what is meant by composition in an age when writing is the manipulation of images in hyperspace. (PA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Metaphors
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