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Investigating Invisible Writing Practices in the Engineering Curriculum Using Practice Architectures
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Goldsmith, Rosalie; Willey, Keith; Boud, David – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Writing practices are seen to be essential for professional engineers, yet many engineering students and academics struggle with written communication, despite years of interventions to improve student writing. Much has been written about the importance of getting engineering students to write, but there has been a little investigation of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Bringing Cohesiveness to Writing Classes
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Akinnagbe, Geneviève DeBose – Educational Leadership, 2018
Teacher Geneviève DeBose Akinnagbe discusses her school's--and her own--improvement in the area of writing instruction. While she is a strong believer in teacher-led change, she says the change in this case was mainly the result of the school's becoming more intentional, at an organizational level, about the teaching of writing. The progress truly…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Writing Teachers
Thinking beyond Writing Development in Peer Review
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Chaktsiris, Mary G.; Southworth, James – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The benefits of a peer review process tend to be evaluated in terms of improvements to students' writing. But are there reasons why instructors might want to implement peer review into their courses over and above writing development? In this study, we collected data from 30 university students on their perceptions of a peer review process.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Peer Evaluation, Student Writing Models, Student Attitudes
Effects of Self-Regulated Strategy Development on the Writing Skills and Problem Behaviors of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
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Werunga, Robai Nasaba – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Building on existing research on Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD), the current study investigated the collateral effects of social skills prompts on the writing outcomes and problem behavior of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Generalization measures involved the use of video prompts to explore their impact (if…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Emotional Disturbances
Saving Time, Increasing Learning: Using Checklists to Help Students Perform Disciplinary Writing Conventions
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Wood, Marianna D.; Wood, Jessa M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Students in upper-level courses are expected to observe disciplinary conventions in writing assignments. Common recommendations for teaching conventions require substantial time for instructor feedback and in-class instruction. As an alternative, we tested the effectiveness of a checklist in improving students' performance of these conventions.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
Best Practices for Improving the Writing of 3rd and 4th Grade Students
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Eftekhari, Parastou Afshar – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Scores on a state comprehensive assessment test showed that writing skills of 4th grade students enrolled in a K-8 magnet school in the southeastern part of the United States were below target. The assistant principal of the K-8 magnet school explained that a review of 3-year longitudinal data revealed that the number of students who met…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Elementary School Students