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Qualitative Research on What Leads to Success in Professional Writing

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Walters, Margaret; Hunter, Susan; Giddens, Elizabeth – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007

This article examines the experiences of advanced students and of graduates in a nontraditional MA in professional writing program to discover how faculty may assure student success in professional writing occupations. The study investigates the knowledge domains and habits of mind that foster student success in writing. The research is the…

Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Students, Writing Achievement, Writing (Composition)