Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing.

Cheng, Xiaoguang; Steffensen, Margaret S.

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ERIC Number: EJ527309

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Publication Date: 1996

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Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing.

Cheng, Xiaoguang; Steffensen, Margaret S.

Research in the Teaching of English, v30 n2 p149-81 May 1996

Reports on a study that explored, first, how metadiscourse can enhance college students' awareness of readers' needs and, second, how the use of metadiscourse is related to the quality of the texts that students produced. Suggests that metadiscourse produces better student writing. (TB)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Higher Education, Metacognition, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Research

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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