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Numrich, Carol; Kennedy, Alan S. – TESOL Journal, 2017
In this article, the authors discuss the importance of the skill of synthesis in university-level writing. They outline specific challenges faced by students of English as a second language with synthesis as a writing skill. They then describe a lesson that they created for an English for academic purposes class for graduate students in the field…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Discourse Analysis, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language)
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Gillen, Julia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
In this paper I deploy a synthesis of methods I term virtual literacy ethnography to investigate the diverse literacy practices of the project Schome Park. Participants have been engaging over a 15-month period in an innovative out-of-school project centred on use of the "(Teen) Second Life" three-dimensional virtual world. Some ethical…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Literacy, Educational Practices, Virtual Classrooms