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Castelló, Montserrat; McAlpine, Lynn; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Post-PhD researchers working at universities are contributors to a country's productivity and competitiveness mostly through writing, which becomes a means to establish their scholarly identity as they contribute to knowledge. However, little is known about researchers' writing perceptions, and their interrelations with engagement in research,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Students
Woodard, Rebecca; Vaughan, Andrea; Machado, Emily – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
We examine how culturally sustaining pedagogy that fosters linguistic and cultural pluralism might be taken up in writing instruction. Using data collected through semistructured interviews with nine urban elementary and middle school writing teachers, we document teachers' conceptualizations and enactments of culturally sustaining writing…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Urban Schools
Zumbrunn, Sharon; Carter, Yvette M.; Conklin, Sarah – Journal of Research in Education, 2014
This study explored college students' beliefs about the value of writing, their past experiences with writing, and the relationship between students' prior experiences with writing and writing value beliefs. One hundred fourteen undergraduates from a public Southeastern university participated in the study. Using expectancy-value theory as a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Relles, Stefani R. – Educational Forum, 2017
This narrative study tracks low-income student perceptions of college writing. The study uses the Funds of Knowledge theoretical framework to suggest that underperforming high schools--like diverse households and families--socialize students into bodies of knowledge that are academically relevant regardless of whether or not they resemble…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, College Students, Low Income Students, Writing Attitudes
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Jantori, Parinda; Chutataweesawas, Sirikoy – Online Submission, 2018
Due to 'pressures' to publish research papers, a group of novice researchers (n = 9) was encouraged to attend a 'Write right' workshop. The participants were asked to fill out a self-report anxiety questionnaire to understand their worries in writing research papers in English. Afterwards, they were asked to write an essay on situations that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers, Novices
Stuart Blythe; Laura Gonzales – College Composition and Communication, 2016
The authors report on a study of writing transfer using a relatively novel method. Specifically, they use screencast videos to study the work of a dozen undergraduates who had taken first-year writing and were now enrolled in an interdisciplinary biology class. The authors argue that students were able to adapt to the writing requirements in the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Video Technology, Biology
Yaman, Havva – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study analyzed whether secondary-school students' continuous and stationary anxieties predict their anxiety about writing and their attitudes about courses in Turkish. The research participants consisted of 281 students in Sakarya Province, 58% male and 42% female. The personal descriptive survey model was used for the research. As data…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Anxiety, Writing Attitudes, Student Attitudes
McCarthey, Sarah J.; Kang, Grace – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The study focused on two kindergarten teachers who were observed and interviewed throughout one school year. The contrasting cases demonstrate how two teachers drew upon their experiences with teaching writing and professional development (PD) with differing outcomes for their instruction and underlying beliefs about writing. Dana, an experienced…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Case Studies
Whatley, Amanda Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of writing on the content areas when coupled with ongoing professional development and support for content-area teachers. Research shows that writing is an essential skill for success in and beyond the school setting. Research further indicates that writing plays an important role in student…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement, Faculty Development
Durham, Frank D.; Russell, Jae-Eun; Van Horne, Samuel – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
This study investigated students' engagement and learning in a large lecture journalism history course based on a revision of its discussion curriculum. The new curriculum incorporated visual media and facilitated collaborative learning in active learning classrooms. Surveys were administered to assess students' perceptions of the course,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method, Journalism Education
Fraizer, Dan – Composition Forum, 2018
Writing transfer research often illuminates the writing abilities, attitudes, and assumptions college writers bring to a writing assignment, but faculty members across the disciplines may not have the tools for understanding what the students in their particular classes bring to their particular writing assignments. In this proposed model,…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Course Content
Beaudrie, Sara M. – Hispania, 2017
Spanish spelling, especially the use of written accent marks, is a major stumbling block for Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners (Carreira 2002). In fact, Mikulski (2006) found that most SHL learners ranked bettering their spelling and grammar as a very important learning goal. Despite its importance in literacy development and its perceived…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Spelling, Spanish
Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2015
The current study was designed to unveil a group of EFL students' metaphors for English writing and determine whether engaging in peer dialogues helped students to modify their beliefs and practices. It was found that about one third of the elicited metaphors carried a negative tone towards English writing. The metaphor-sharing dialogues among…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Writing (Composition)
Keleher, D. Michael – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2016
This article describes a two-semester study of mixed (native and non-native speaking) writing groups in developmental college writing classes. The teacher assigned and observed writing activities and collected survey and interview data to determine the impact on the students' perceived writing abilities and attitudes toward paired and small group…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Keskin, Hasan Kagan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of the present study is to identify to what extent writing motivation can classify readers as good or poor comprehenders. The study was conducted on a total of 156 fourth graders studying at a state-run primary school in the center of Duzce, Turkey. The data were collected through the Writing Motivation Scale and the Mistake Analysis…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Writing Attitudes, Motivation, Grade 4