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Zajic, Matthew; McIntyre, Nancy; Swain, Lindsay; McCauley, James; Schiltz, Hillary; Oswald, Tasha – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Higher-functioning, school-age children with autism spectrum disorders (HFASD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience writing difficulties. Prior research has not often investigated writing self-concept, self-efficacy, and text-type familiarity with these children, especially children with HFASD. This study looked at…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Kathleen Blake Yancey; Matthew Davis; Liane Robertson; Kara Taczak; Erin Workman – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Drawing on the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) writing curriculum, this study documents how students in writing courses at four different institutions transferred writing knowledge and practice concurrently into other sites of writing, including other courses, co-curriculars, and workplaces. This research demonstrates that when students, supported by…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods
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Liao, Calvin C. Y.; Chang, Wan-Chen; Chan, Tak-Wai – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
We have observed that many computer-supported writing environments based on pedagogical strategies have only been designed to incorporate the cognitive aspects, but motivational aspects should also be included. Hence, we theorize that integrating game-based learning into the writing environment may be a practical approach that can facilitate…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Games
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Alidmat, Ali Odeh Hammoud; Ayassrah, Mohamed Ayed – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Teaching English for Special Purposes (ESP) in a context where English is taught as a Foreign Language (EFL) is no easy task. There is in fact extensive research reporting on challenges facing both teacher and student in the Foreign Language classroom where language skills must be learnt outside their usual context. Even more challenging is…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Critical Thinking, Writing (Composition), Marine Education
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Hales, Patrick D. – Cogent Education, 2017
Student voice is a difficult concept to capture in research. This study attempts to provide a vehicle for understanding student perceptions about writing and writing instruction through a case study supported by discourse analysis of student talk. The high school students in this study participated in interviews and focus groups about their…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Case Studies
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Kong, Yunjun – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
This study aimed to examine Chinese TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) teachers' conceptions of writing, in particular, to find out their agreeability with multifaceted concepts of writing, multi-functions of writing, facilitators to the development of writing, and the basis of good writing. A questionnaire containing natures,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Bellamy, Deborah – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The college open door policy initiated in the 1960s made access to higher education available for more students in the United States. People who were once excluded from enrolling in college now have an opportunity to earn a college degree. Some first-time students, significantly underprepared in writing, have been required to enroll in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Writing Teachers, Writing Attitudes
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Williamson, Thea – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019
This embedded case study investigates the nature of authorship in a secondary English Language Arts classroom by examining two adolescents' writing identities and experiences writing across genres. Using rhetorical genre theory, the study illustrates how composition and notions of authorship in this context were strongly informed by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Authors, Language Arts, Writing Instruction
Clark, Christina; Lant, Fay – National Literacy Trust, 2019
This report uses data from the National Literacy Trust's 2019 Annual Literacy Survey and the Great School Library Campaign to determine how many schools in the UK have had a writer visit in the last year, their reasons for organising the visit, and the relationship the visit had with children and young people's engagement with reading and writing.…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Children
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Mary Soliday; Jennifer Seibel Trainor – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Drawing from a large qualitative study, we examine how students experience writing in college, focusing on the conditions that allow students to develop their authorship and those that encourage students to experience writing as a process of following rules and regulations. We situate students' perceptions, and the assignments and practices that…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes
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Tehrani, Faranak Abbaszad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Writing has been seen as a problem to many of students and learning to write fluently has been the most difficult of the macro-skills for all languages. From academic writing point of view, drawing attention to the constant needs to draft and revise can be considered one of the important ways to encourage students to be responsible for making…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Writing (Composition)
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Kelly Ritter – College Composition and Communication, 2018
I revisit the so-called Illinois Decision of 1955, which eliminated basic writing from the University of Illinois Rhetoric Program and caused a chain of similar programmatic actions on other campuses nationwide. I contend that reviewing and archiving the Illinois Decision as a locally specific act with multiple actors besides WPA Charles Roberts…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Educational History, Writing Instruction, Program Administration
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Wright, Katherine Landau; Hodges, Tracey S.; Zimmer, Wendi K.; McTigue, Erin M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Although many agree that writing can make a unique contribution to learning, harnessing that contribution is difficult, particularly in the middle grades. The purpose of this study was to measure the efficacy of a feasible writing-to-learn intervention in Grade 6-11 science classes. We focused on middle school students because this group has been…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Writing Instruction
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Gernsbacher, Morton Ann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
Google the question, "How is the Internet changing the way we communicate?," and you will find no shortage of opinions, or fears, about the Internet altering the way we communicate. Although the Internet is not necessarily making communication briefer (neither is the Internet making communication less formal), the Internet is manifesting…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Social Networks
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Kurtyka, Faith – Composition Forum, 2015
Rhetorical Genre Studies has noted the importance of emotion to the study of genre, focusing on how writers' attitudes and dispositions influence their perception of a genre. To continue to validate emotions as part of the experience of creating and shaping genres, this study traces the emotional valences of one writer, "Jocelyn," in…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Rhetoric, Psychological Patterns, Writing (Composition)
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