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Piotr Konieczny – College Teaching, 2024
This Quick Fix describes how the emerging "writing for Wikipedia" activity allows replacing a traditional written paper with a more motivating, digital assignment that also allows students to contribute to society. It presents the most efficient ways to incorporate Wikipedia into one's teaching curriculum, while also discussing best…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Writing Assignments
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Kao, Vivian; Hedges, Nicole; Huggins, Samuel; Balint, Bethany; Kocherovsky, Mark; Seger, Katelyn; Dabaja, Amar – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Using a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) model of education, an English composition instructor designed an honors section of first-year composition to evaluate current best practices in the field of teaching writing to STEM undergraduates. The students, all first-year engineering majors, conducted guided research on best…
Descriptors: Student Research, Best Practices, College Freshmen, Undergraduate Study
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Krishnan, Jenell; Yim, Soobin; Wolters, Alissa; Cusimano, Andrew – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
Online synchronous collaborative writing (SCW) is ubiquitous among youths and has found its way into many secondary English language arts classrooms. Yet, to maximize the affordances of online SCW, teachers need a synthesis of contemporary, evidence-based practices for how to support students during this form of writing. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Secondary School Students, Language Arts, Educational Technology
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Hoewe, Jennifer; Bowe, Brian J.; Zeldes, Geri Alumit – Communication Teacher, 2012
The difficult nature of reporting accurately and objectively on religion, coupled with world events and discrimination against Muslims, motivated a pilot course called "Reporting on Islam." The activity detailed in this article addressed two issues--improving the coverage of religion, specifically Islam, in the news media and using communication…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, News Reporting, Critical Thinking
Westhuizen, Duan vd – Commonwealth of Learning, 2016
This work starts with a brief overview of education in developing countries, to contextualise the use of the guidelines. Although this document is intended to be a practical tool, it is necessary to include some theoretical analysis of the concept of online assessment. This is given in Sections 3 and 4, together with the identification and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Student Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
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Read, Sylvia – Reading Teacher, 2010
The IMSCI model for teaching writing scaffolds the instruction so that students understand the features of a genre, see the teacher model writing a text in the target genre, participate in the creation of a text in the genre (through shared or collaborative writing), and independently write a text in the genre. This model is based on social…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Collaborative Writing, Writing Instruction, Fiction