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  • Principles and practices in online writing instruction

    Creator:
    Cole, Gail
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    This thesis explores the administrative issues that factor into the teaching of writing online. I explore these issues by situating the Conference on College Composition and Communication Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction at the center of this project by both examining and...
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    study of the way in which Oregon State develops and delivers online writing courses, I fully explore

  • 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
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    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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    Used for Pilot Study .......................... 131 B End-of-Term Writing Self-Evaluation Used

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

    Creator:
    Carothers, April D.
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    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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    Janet Emig’s exemplary case study, The Composing Processes of Twelfth-Graders) and to produce

  • More than a term : a consideration of how to support generation 1.5 students at colleges and universities

    Creator:
    Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
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    In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
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    from both two- and four-year colleges and universities and a case study of a college access program

  • Modalities of responding to student writing : how the medium shapes the message

    Creator:
    Mosser, Sarah E.
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    With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors have more options of the modalities of responding to student writing. Whereas traditionally, responses have been written by hand, technological developments allow responses to take very different forms. Some of these technologies, such as word processing, mimic the text-on-page techniques...
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    line of future research.1 My study also does not include computer-generated response, though this