Writing Instruction
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How do students conceptualize writing college admissions essays for anonymous audiences, and how can teachers and admissions personnel develop practices responsive to these conceptualizations? In our study, we sought to understand how... more
I dag foregår det meste kommunikation via digitale medier. Selvom det betyder, at håndskrivningen ikke bliver trænet nær så meget som før i tiden, har den dog stadig en plads i vores hverdagsskriverier samt i de Fælles Mål for dansk til... more
An example assignment for a first-year writing course.
This paper reviews the recent publications and researches on distance education and explores its promise and potential from the student's perspective, the faculty's perspective and the administrator's perspective. Our findings... more
Academic writing is becoming a matter of concern for the developing countries where English serves as a second or foreign language because of the significant role it plays in the academic as well as professional life of an individual.... more
What Is It "Writing For Pleasure" Teachers Do That Makes The Difference? was a one year research project which investigated how Writing For Pleasure teachers achieve writing teaching which is highly effective (greater than average... more
Much of academic writing research is conducted with academics and with postgraduate students in the United States, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia. There is less published research on how undergraduate students reflect on their writing... more
The choice of materials available to teachers is almost infinite, ranging from YouTube clips to research articles, but their effectiveness ultimately depends on the role that they are required to play in the instructional process and on... more
This is an International Webinar: Teaching Narrative Writing. It was recorded on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. It provides strategies for teachers in K-12.
This chapter discusses the role of instructional materials in the writing class, describing the steps in selecting, modifying and supplementing published materials, in finding and using texts, and in designing and evaluating writing... more
Writing skills hold a significant place in education; requiring years of schooling and proper training to be achieved by students. Urdu and English, regardless of being the medium of Pakistani education system and writing in these... more
Students have asked me to make this sheet about writing academic paragraphs available. If you want to use this instruction sheet in your classes, you have permission. You do not need to contact me for permission. Central to work at the... more
This book provides a unique reference and comprehensive overview of the issues pertinent to conceptualizing, measuring, researching and nurturing writing motivation. It covers these theoretical, practical and research issues by drawing on... more
Table of Contents 1 CHAPTER ONE 3 EXPOSITORY WRITING 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Main Characteristics and Features of Expository Writing 5 1.3 Why to Teach Expository Writing? 6 1.4 Guidelines for Writing Expository Essays 7 definition|... more
This paper having an overview of the history of ESL/EFL writing assessment, tries to explore in to the different waves of its development. Then, taking into account the direct and indirect methods of writing assessment, it elucidates the... more
A 3-page introduction to hermeneutics disguised as a handout on the (humanities) essay form (with special reference to philosophy).
Evidence from real-time logs shows that learning about composing can and does happen in on-line courses where synchronous conferencing is a central feature. Students can be witnessed checking their understanding of an idea, verifying... more
Composition courses, English as a Second Language courses, Business and Technical Communication, among others, are often delivered through both asynchronous and synchronous learning environments and methodologies. Many face-to-face and... more
Writing is one of the most important skills in English language teaching. Yet, the writing skill is not always easy for both teachers and learners. For teachers, writing instruction usually poses difficulties at the level of... more
Vocabulary is an important aspect of language learning, but how to teach it has not been fully developed and vocabulary items are often taught separately from skills to express oneself. In this paper, I discuss how vocabulary should be... more
The use of WebQuests and the Internet might be the right vehicle to motivate and lead to better English language acquisition. The present study was conducted to find out whether there were significant differences between EFL students who... more
This article appeared in 76.3 of College English. "The accounts of six multilingual writers that follow show how writing across languages and locations in the world fosters what might be thought of as rhetorical attunement: an ear for,... more
With academic writing now viewed as an important part of English language instruction, research studies have seen an increased emphasis on the question of how innovations in writing instruction impact students' writing outputs. Using the... more
This paper describes the basic elements necessary to help students develop the ability to use writing to express their ideas. Include here are the basics of the writing process, writing workshop, interventions for generating ideas, and... more
Academic writing is becoming a matter of concern for the developing countries where English serves as a second or foreign language because of the significant role it plays in the academic as well as professional life of an individual.... more
Writing is key to assessment in university contexts and hence students need to be empowered to effectively function in subject-specific writing environments. In this regard, it is important that students take charge of their own writing... more
The aim of this study was to find out the relationship between use of discourse connectors and cohesion of writing in the writing samples of Malaysian school students. Thirty samples from each educational level (Form 4; Form 5; College;... more
Laboratory techniques for materials science and materials engineering education. From the discipline "Introdução aos Materiais" (Introduction to Materials) lectured at the Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering of University of... more
Three groups of EFL freshman students were concurrently enrolled in a grammar and a writing course. One group was taught the grammar and writing courses by the same instructor; the other two groups were taught grammar and writing by two... more
There has been a growth in students with dyslexia attending university. These students commonly rate writing as one of their greatest problem areas. Our research set out to describe the effects of dyslexia on the writing skills of... more
Editorial: Written corrective feedback (WCF): Teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practice
The present study attempted to investigate the impact of electronic portfolio assessment on performance of Iranian EFL learners' writing. To do so, 30 advanced EFL learners who participated in a TOEFL preparation course were selected as... more
Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.... more