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Download full textBartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
Direct linkKalianne L. Neumann; Theodore J. Kopcha – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2019
This paper presents a design case that describes the design, development, and user experience testing of a Google Docs revision add-on. The add-on is an instructional, peer review tool intended to help students distinguish surface-level feedback from text-based feedback in order to develop their revision task schema. Eleven secondary teachers…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Feedback (Response), Web 2.0 Technologies, Peer Evaluation
Olalla-Soler, Christian – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
This paper presents the mentoring programme carried out by Professional Association of Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia (APTIC) based on a multiple-mentoring model. It was offered during the academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 in collaboration with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat de Vic and will continue in…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Professional Personnel, Translation, Work Ethic
Conrad, Nina – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
Anglosphere universities are a site of growing concern about students' use of professional English language editing and proofreading services for the correction of academic writing. Students' use of such services raises issues of ethics and academic integrity as well as fundamental questions about how value is allotted to the labour involved in…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Higher Education, Guidelines, Editing
Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
Evmenova, Anya S.; Regan, Kelley – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Many students with learning disabilities (LD) and emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) struggle with the writing process. Technology has shown to be effective in supporting prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing of written products. This article explains the use of one technology-based graphic organizer with embedded…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Writing Improvement
Golding, Clinton – Open Review of Educational Research, 2017
In the article, "What examiners do: What thesis students should know", we identified 11 things that thesis examiners do as they read and judge a thesis. But, we left a gap in the research: knowing this, What should thesis students do to write for their examiners? In this article, I fill the gap. The advice for thesis students is: first,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Turner, Joan – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
This article highlights the potential of academic literacies as a theoretical framework for EAP, encompassing not only work on texts, but the wider, socio-political, geopolitical, and institutional contexts and practices in and with which EAP operates. An academic literacies approach foregrounds social practices, and one particular practice, that…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Social Sciences, Literacy, Humanities
Shahar, Jed – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Cell phone ubiquity enables students to record and share audio file versions of their essays for proofreading purposes. Adopting this practice in community college developmental writing classes leads to an investigation of both writing as a technology and the influence of modern technology on composition and composition pedagogy.
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Wells, Jennifer – English Journal, 2008
While the college admissions guidebook industry has churned out numerous books and websites telling students what their essays should and should not do, most of those are written by former admissions officers, not by writers or teachers of writing, and almost all rely heavily on providing models of top admissions essays. As a result, students who…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Essays, College Admission, Nonfiction
Young, Terrence E., Jr. – School Library Journal, 2004
Today's elementary school students have been exposed to computers since birth, so it is not surprising that they are so proficient at using them. As a result, they are ready to search databases that include topics and information appropriate for their age level. Subscription databases are digital copies of magazines, newspapers, journals,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Databases, Proofreading, Spelling
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Correction
Carduner, Jessie – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Foreign language teachers have long been frustrated by learners' written errors. Traditional approaches to the problem--grammar instruction and error feedback--when used alone are not effective. Explicit instruction in proofreading provides a missing link. When instruction in proofreading is embedded in grammar instruction and when learners use…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Proofreading, Writing (Composition), Grammar
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedComerford, Linda – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1993
Describes a 14-hour course designed to teach grammar to adults in the business world. Describes the kinds of students in the course and why they have not learned grammar previously. Presents 10 suggestions on how a similar course might be taught. (RS)
Descriptors: Adults, Corporate Education, Course Descriptions, Editing
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