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Fung, Yong Mei; Mei, Hooi Chee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
When writing an argumentative essay, writers develop and evaluate arguments to embody, initiate, or simulate various kinds of interpersonal and textual interaction for reader consideration (Wu & Allison, 2003). This is quite challenging for English as a second language (ESL) learners. To improve the quality of their writing, students need to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Essays
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Hong, Carrie Eunyoung; Mongillo, Geraldine; Wilder, Hilary – Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study explored how college freshmen at a mid-sized public university in north-eastern United States used Twitter, an anytime/anywhere writing technology, to support and promote the writing process by using tweets as a pre-writing activity. Two of the authors taught a joint course of First Year Seminar and Basic Reading in which the same group…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication