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Contemplative Course Design: Promoting Mindfulness and Academic Belonging among Student Writers Labeled Institutionally Unprepared
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Kristen Starkowski – Composition Forum, 2024
Student writers labeled "underprepared" by colleges often have trouble imagining themselves as scholars. Challenges these students routinely encounter include difficulty forming original insights and translating ideas to the page. Although the usage of the term "underprepared" varies across institutional contexts, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Developmental Studies Programs
The Impact of Project-Based Learning Assignments on the Writing, Communication and Interpersonal Skills of Students in a College Skills Course
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Lockhart Sigman, Aungeto Ditze – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this action research study was to determine the impact of project-based learning on the writing, communication and interpersonal skills of students in a college skills course. This course was required for students who were enrolled in at least one or more developmental courses. The purpose of this course was to equip the students…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Assignments, Writing Skills
Comparing Language Use in the Writing of Developmental Generation 1.5, L1, and L2 Tertiary Students
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Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2014
Developmental composition courses serve a sizable and growing number of Generation 1.5 students, or long-term U.S. resident language learners, and it is believed that language challenges may be part of Generation 1.5 writers' difficulty in controlling the academic register. The current study investigates possible similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students: Evaluation of a Diagnostic Procedure
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Erling, Elizabeth J.; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessing Writing, 2010
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students is a procedure developed in the 1990s at the University of Sydney's Language Centre to identify students in need of academic writing development by assessing examples of their written work against five criteria. This paper reviews the literature relating to the development of the procedure with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Assignments, Psychometrics
Writing to Learn in Anatomy and Physiology.
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Wilcox, Kimberly J.; Jensen, Murray S. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2000
Examines the effectiveness of two writing-to-learn formats in helping developmental students master biological information and in decreasing writing anxiety. Objective measures showed a small but significant decrease in writing anxiety over the quarter, unrelated to writing format. Writing format also had little effect on content knowledge, based…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Course Evaluation, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education
Computers, Revision, and the Developmental Writer: A Case Study of On-Screen Versus Off-Screen Revision Processes.
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Walker, Cynthia L. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1997
Presents results from a study of eight college freshman to determine differences between revising essays on-screen and on-paper. Eighty-one percent of on-screen changes were above the mechanical or word level, often related to meaning and content. Students working on-screen tended to add more information and recreate paragraphs, but sometimes…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education