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Filtering by: Decade 2000-2009 Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Subject English language -- Composition and exercises -- Evaluation

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:

Robinson, Tracy Ann

Abstract:

Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....

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Masters Thesis
A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

Creator:

Carothers, April D.

Abstract:

What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...

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Masters Thesis