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Alsied, Safia Mujtaba; Ibrahim, Noura Winis – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
Research is conducted all over the world to solve problems or to answer questions of significance to humanity. Academic writing or writing to report research is not easy because it requires adequate background knowledge, interest, motivation and hard work. This study investigates the major challenges in research writing faced by Libyan EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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Lu, Zhihong; Li, Xiaowei; Li, Zhenxiao – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The effective design and use of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) tools in developing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing skill and learner autonomy have remained great challenges for system designers, developers, and EFL instructors compared with that of the pencil-paper writing in the context of regular teacher-fronted…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Automation, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Schuster, Edgar H. – English Journal, 2011
Effective writers--professionals and students--break traditionally taught rules frequently. So why teach students rules that writers don't actually follow? English teachers bear the responsibility of offering young writers guidance--of teaching them stylistics "rules." But as thoughtful writing teachers, they are also responsible for observing…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, English Teachers, Writing Instruction, Misconceptions
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Jeffery, Jill V.; Wilcox, Kristen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This research embedded in the National Study of Writing Instruction examines higher- and lower-achieving adolescents' stances toward content-area writing through a qualitative discourse analysis of interviews with 40 students in California, Kentucky, New York, and Texas secondary schools. The study asked: (1) How do students' stances toward…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Middle School Students
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Wamsted, John O. – Qualitative Research in Education, 2012
In this article the author--a full-time high school mathematics teacher and concurrent doctoral candidate in Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology at Georgia State University--will make a case for the use of an autoethnographic methodological tool he is calling "narrative mining." He will begin by briefly…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Research Methodology
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Adika, Gordon S. K. – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
Drawing from a social constructionist perspective to written scholarly communication, this paper argues that training in academic writing for students in higher education especially in second language contexts should go beyond emphasis on grammatical correctness and paragraphing strategies, and also focus on the rhetorical character of academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credibility, Accountability, Academic Discourse
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Cisco, Jonathan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2014
Instructors across the disciplines require their students to write literature reviews. Although numerous sources describe the literature review process, instructors and students face difficulty when approaching the structure of a literature review. This paper presents a straightforward, efficient approach for teaching students how to write a…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Undergraduate Students
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Cárdenas, Melba L. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
The increase in the publication of academic journals is closely related to the growing interest of research communities as well as of institutional policies that demand visibility of the work done by their staff through publications in highly-ranked journals. The purpose of this paper is to portray the experiences of some authors who published…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Academic Discourse, Journal Articles, Content Analysis
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Frawley, Emily – English in Australia, 2014
This paper discusses a research project undertaken to examine teachers' perceptions of creative writing in the senior English curriculum. It was a case study undertaken in a state high school in Melbourne under the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). The project investigated the challenges facing English teachers as they prepare students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, Secondary School Teachers
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Zheng, Binbin; Lawrence, Joshua; Warschauer, Mark; Lin, Chin-Hsi – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
Individual writing and collaborative writing skills are important for academic success, yet are poorly taught in K-12 classrooms. This study examines how sixth-grade students (n = 257) taught by two teachers used Google Docs to write and exchange feedback. We used longitudinal growth models to analyze a large number of student writing samples…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Skills, Collaborative Writing, Grade 6
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Kobayashi, Hiroe; Rinnert, Carol – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2013
This longitudinal case study, supplemented by cross-sectional comparisons among five groups of writers with differing backgrounds, investigates how Natsu, a Japanese multilingual writer, developed her L1, L2 (English), and L3 (Chinese) writing competence over two and a half years. To create a comprehensive picture of this multilingual writer, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Multilingualism, Native Language
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Gallagher, Chris W. – College English, 2012
Although outcomes assessment (OA) has become "common sense" in higher education, this article shows that the concept of "outcomes" tends to limit and compromise teaching and learning while serving the interests of institutional management. By contrast, the pragmatic concept of consequences tends to expand our view of teaching and learning, and…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Pragmatics, Inquiry, Efficiency
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Crossley, Scott A.; Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2016
This study investigates a novel approach to automatically assessing essay quality that combines natural language processing approaches that assess text features with approaches that assess individual differences in writers such as demographic information, standardized test scores, and survey results. The results demonstrate that combining text…
Descriptors: Essays, Scoring, Writing Evaluation, Natural Language Processing
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Lewin-Jones, Jenny; Mason, Victoria – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This study investigates academic staff and student attitudes to style and etiquette of emails. Data were collected through two online staff and student surveys. Reported use and acceptability of particular features of email style were assessed. Open-ended responses yielded four themes: the balance between formality and informality, relationships,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Mail, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Daisey, Peggy – Online Submission, 2014
(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to describe the method, barriers, and positive effects when secondary preservice teachers of diverse subject areas shared their writing with individual middle and high school students in school. (Methodology) secondary preservice teachers (N = 77) shared their writing for two minutes before class each time…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary Education, Writing (Composition), Sharing Behavior
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