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Baillargeon, Kathryn – Composition Forum, 2020
This article seeks to answer two questions: what kinds of expertise are needed to lead an effective dissertation boot camp; and how can those outside the graduate student's discipline support their writing? Drawing on four years of application data and post-camp interviews, I reveal how writing process knowledge--similar to that described in the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing Workshops, Writing Processes
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Li, Xiaoping; Zhang, Mingyuan – SAGE Open, 2015
Writing is recognized as a vital skill in education and the workplace; students in the United States finishing K-12 schooling are expected to be competent writers. Yet, "the Nation's Report Card" found that U.S. high school graduates coming into the workforce are particularly deficient in writing skills. Teachers serve as a crucial link…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Writing Skills, Writing Processes, Writing Workshops
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Locke, Terry; Whitehead, David; Dix, Stephanie; Cawkwell, Gail – Teacher Development, 2011
This article draws on early data from a two-year project (2009-11) being undertaken in the New Zealand context by the authors entitled: "Teachers as Writers: Transforming Professional Identity and Classroom Practice". Based on the National Writing Project in the USA (and in New Zealand in the 1980s) its hypothesis is that when teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Professional Development, Writing Workshops
Thomas, Linda A. – 1992
A study determined how exposure to learning writing as process through writing workshops would affect the attitudes of fifth grade students. Subjects had no experience with writing as process. At the outset of the school year, the participants, 23 fifth-grade students in a northeastern New Jersey school, were administered the "Emig-King…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Process Approach (Writing)
Boykin, Zsa; Scrivner, Jennifer; Robbins, Sarah – National Writing Project (NJ1), 2004
Between 1996 and 1998, a team of teacher-consultants affiliated with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project (KMWP), Georgia, used support from Project Outreach of the National Writing Project to develop a model for promoting teacher leadership within individual urban schools and for their writing project site as a whole. Their model is not a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Leadership, Models, Teacher Collaboration
Boone, Kerri; And Others – 1996
An action research project addressed the problem of inadequate student knowledge of writing strategies and students' negative attitudes toward the writing process. The targeted population consisted of early childhood, first grade, and third grade students in two growing, lower/middle class communities located in the western suburbs of a large…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 1, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness