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Journal articles on the topic "University writing assignments"
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Hendriwanto, Hendriwanto, Nurani Hartini, Joko Nurkamto, and Ramnita Sharda. "AN ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING: FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE." Academic Journal Perspective : Education, Language, and Literature 8, no. 2 (2020): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.33603/perspective.v8i2.4373.
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This study aims to investigate the role of SFL theory in teaching academic writing. The present study was to find out what the change of genre awareness of students’ writing. Twenty-two participants were recruited to engage in the process of deconstruction, join construction, and independent construction activities. The findings of study revealed two important aspect in teaching academic writing, thematic Progression in students’ writing and appraisal concept in students’ writing argumentation. Data sources were gathered through student assignments to write argumentative essay. Student assignments were written in 6o minutes with the IELTS and TOEFL writing. Questionnaire and interviews in argumentative writing were given to students. Data were collected from students’ assignment and data were analysed through transitivity and appraisal system (Martin & White, 2015). This finding of the study implies to the language education particularly writing instruction.
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Llosa, Lorena, and Margaret E. Malone. "Comparability of students’ writing performance on TOEFL iBT and in required university writing courses." Language Testing 36, no. 2 (2018): 235–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265532218763456.
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Investigating the comparability of students’ performance on TOEFL writing tasks and actual academic writing tasks is essential to provide backing for the extrapolation inference in the TOEFL validity argument (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008). This study compared 103 international non-native-English-speaking undergraduate students’ performance on two TOEFL iBT® writing tasks with their performance in required writing courses in US universities as measured by instructors’ ratings of student proficiency, instructor-assigned grades on two course assignments, and five dimensions of writing quality of the first and final drafts of those course assignments: grammatical, cohesive, rhetorical, sociopragmatic, and content control. Also, the quality of the writing on the TOEFL writing tasks was compared with the first and final drafts of responses to written course assignments using a common analytic rubric along the five dimensions. Correlations of scores from TOEFL tasks (Independent, Integrated, and the total Writing section) with instructor ratings of students’ overall English proficiency and writing proficiency were moderate and significant. However, only scores on the Integrated task and the Writing section were correlated with instructor-assigned grades on course assignments. Correlations between scores on TOEFL tasks and all dimensions of writing quality were positive and significant, though of lower magnitude for final drafts than for first drafts. The TOEFL scores were most highly correlated with cohesive and grammatical control and had the lowest correlations with rhetorical organization. The quality of the writing on the TOEFL tasks was comparable to that of the first drafts of course assignment but not the final drafts. These findings provide backing for the extrapolation inference, suggesting that the construct of academic writing proficiency as assessed by TOEFL “accounts for the quality of linguistic performance in English-medium institutions of higher education” (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008, p. 21).
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Hiller, Kristin E. "Introducing Translanguaging in an EAP Course at a Joint-Venture University in China." RELC Journal 52, no. 2 (2021): 307–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00336882211014997.
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This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino–US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students’ full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated translanguaging into an EAP course through three components: explicit discussion of translanguaging, a short writing assignment on an extended definition of a Chinese concept, and a team survey project to test a generalization about Chinese culture. Observation and feedback from students indicate that these translanguaging writing assignments have the potential to contribute to students’ cultural knowledge, writing and communication skills, intercultural communication and awareness, and identity construction as translingual and transnational students. I describe the context and rationale for the innovative assignments, and the assignments themselves. I then reflect on the process and discuss implications and plans for expansion of activities that promote translanguaging.
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Shi, Ling, and Yanning Dong. "Graduate Writing Assignments Across Faculties in a Canadian University." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 45, no. 4 (2015): 123–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v45i4.184723.
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This study examines 143 graduate assignments across 12 faculties or schools in a Canadian university in order to identify types of writing tasks. Based on the descriptions provided by the instructors, we identified nine types of assignments, with scholarly essay being the most common, followed by summary and response, literature review, project, review, case analysis, proposal, exam, and creative writing. Many assignments are instructor-controlled and have specific content requirements. Some are also process-oriented, providing students with teacher or peer feedback on outlines or initial drafts, suggestions for topic choices, and examples of good writing. With an overview of the types of writing tasks across campus, the study has implications for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) or graduate writing program designers, material developers, educators working within and across disciplines, and researchers interested in the types of university writing assignments in Canada.
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Kim, Miseon. "A Study on Plagiarism Patterns in University Students’ Writing: Focus on Copy Killer Test Results." Korean Association for Literacy 13, no. 4 (2022): 217–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.37736/kjlr.2022.08.13.4.07.
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The purpose of this study is to find a way to educate university students on writing ethics. For this study, 3,374 liberal arts class assignments were analyzed using Copy Killer test results.
 As a result of analyzing the plagiarism rate based on students’ gender, class method, and type of assignment, there was no difference in the plagiarism rate according to the gender of the student. There is a difference in the plagiarism rate between online and on-campus courses. This may indicate that an undergraduate student is more likely to engage in plagiarism when writing an assignment for an online course. There was also a correlation between the type of assignments and the plagiarism rate. Book reviews, columns, and academic essays showed the highest frequency with a plagiarism rate of 0 to 10%, and books with a plagiarism rate of 60% or higher showed the highest frequency in book reviews.
 Instructors should pay attention to students’ assignments and make it mandatory to check for plagiarism. However, since plagiarism is reduced only by checking the plagiarism rate, it is necessary to repeatedly teach writing ethics in class.
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Suciawati, Hasni, Gemala Widiyarti, and Siti Rakiyah. "TEKNIK MENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS DESKRIPSI PADA PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS MELALUI MEDIA GAMBAR PADA MAHASISWA PGSD KELAS 2A12 UNIVERSITAS QUALITY TAHUN AKADEMIK 2021/2022." JURNAL CURERE 6, no. 1 (2022): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.36764/jc.v6i1.721.
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The purpose of this research is to improve the writing ability of Quality university students, especially class 2A12 by using English. In improving writing skills, researchers used pictures as media to stimulate their abilities. From the results of observations made for some time, students' writing skills in English were very lacking. This happened because of the lack of stimulus used during the teaching and learning process, causing them to become less enthusiastic when given English assignments, especially writing assignments
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Hanan Mohammed Al-Dirwish. "Plagiarism in EFL Students’ Assignments A Case Study." Albaydha University Journal 2, no. 2 (2020): 281–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.56807/buj.v2i2.70.
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The aim of the current study is to investigate plagiarism in EFL students’ essay assignments. It throws light on the importance of writing for individuals, particularly for university students without plagiarism. It took place at the Faculty of Education and Sciences, Rada'a, Al-Baydha University. The sample consisted of thirty-four students of the second and third levels. The findings of this case study indicate that 11 out of 34 (32.35%) of those students’ assignment are plagiarized. The findings are thoroughly discussed based on previous studies and the researcher’s perspective. It states some beneficial and reasonable solutions and recommendations directed to students, teaching staff and to further research.
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Song, Sunryoung. "A Study on the Influence of Student Peer Correction on Writing Classes: Focused on Correction for the Self-introduction Letter." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 44, no. 7 (2022): 707–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2022.7.44.7.707.
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Peer correction between students is a useful teaching method for students who cannot accept the affixation of professors or who do not submit assignments at all due to their strong arguments. This is because it is possible for students who have not submitted their assignments to receive assignments from other students, read and correct them according to the writing evaluation criteria table. Therefore peer correction in the class provides students who have significantly poor writing skills with the opportunity to participate in the class and can be helped with their writing through the experience of reading and evaluating other students’ assignments. Student peer correction of self-introduction statements conducted by the author during the second semester of 2019 and the second semester of 2020 consisted of learner-centered writing class, so that the learner’s class participation and concentration were also improved. Therefore, Student peer correction in university writing education has had a very positive effect.
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Rahma Hakiki, Ghaida Nurul. "Perception of EFL Students on the Use Grammarly Application in Writing Class." EDUVELOP 4, no. 2 (2021): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.31605/eduvelop.v4i2.891.
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As EFL students, we cannot separate from writing assignments and articles in English. For some students, it is not easy to express thoughts with good grammar directly. They often require several repetitions of works to avoid making mistakes. Even so, they still make a mistake in grammar. Grammatical errors in the writing class often make it difficult for lecturers to understand student writing content so that students get unsatisfactory feedback. One solution to this problem is implementing the Grammarly application in writing assignments and articles. This study aims to determine students' views on using the Grammarly application in writing assignments and articles. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive analysis methods. The research subjects were students of the fifth semester of English Language Education, FKIP Tidar University. The research data used an automatic grammar checker in the learning process of writing namely Grammarly.
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Arnold, Laura. "Practice makes perfect: a WID approach for Human Resource Management Honours students at a South African university." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South 2, no. 1 (2018): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v2i1.25.
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Little is known about how postgraduate students should be taught to write in their discipline. This research explores how a research preparation module supported Human Resource Management Honours students to write their research reports at a South African university. The module incorporated a ‘Writing in the Disciplines’ (WID) approach, because students, who worked in groups, wrote a series of developmental assignments marked according to rubrics that made the conventions of the report explicit. Many of the developmental assignments were rewritten as components of the research report. In order to determine if rewriting the assignments improved the students’ writing, the assignments from four groups were evaluated against the students’ rubrics. The redrafted assignments met more of the criteria in the marking rubrics. Since all group members spoke English as an additional language, this approach might benefit postgraduate students in similar contexts. The findings suggest that academic staff who want to offer developmental assignments prior to the submission of a larger research text should ensure that students are supported in two ways. Firstly, the design of the assignments should provide students with the opportunity to practice writing all the components of the larger piece of research writing. Secondly, supervisors and academic literacies practitioners should collaborate more effectively so that they can use what they learn from each other to better support students to write for their disciplines.
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 ARNOLD, Laura. Practice makes perfect: a WID approach for Human Resource Management Honours students at a South African university. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, v. 2, n. 1, p. 42-59, Apr. 2018. Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=25
 
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "University writing assignments"
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Fletcher, Margaret Anne, and n/a. "Undergraduate Assignment Writing: An Experiential Account." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040625.165808.
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The purpose of this study was to examine assignment writing as a phenomenon of academic writing. This was done through exploring the experiential accounts of members of a university writing community. Their accounts described the community's perceptions and experiences of literacy practices needed to write assignments, of how students developed these practices, and, of what constituted success in the writing. A multi-method, embedded, case-study approach was used. Quantitative data were derived from first-year, second-year, and fourth-year respondents' perceptions and experiences related to assignment writing. A cross-sectional comparison of groups showed consistent year-level effects. Fourth-year students were more confident as writers than first-year and second-year students, and had less difficulty with declarative and procedural aspects of writing assignments. These findings were replicated in a repeated-measures study using a sub-group of first-year and fourth-year students. However, when students contextualised their responses by nominating a subject and referring to their completion of its written assignment, first-year students reported less difficulty with the declarative aspects while fourth-year students were more positive in the procedural aspects. Year-level effects were found for what they reported as helpful in acquiring declarative and procedural knowledge of writing. First-year students reported a wider range of sources as helpful than fourth-year students did, with two exceptions. More of the latter had found information gained in consultations helpful in understanding an assignment question. Additionally more had found friends helpful. Second-year students generally were more positive than first-year and fourth-year students about the usefulness of information in helping them understand an assignment question and in writing it in an academic genre. Knowing how to write predicted success more strongly and consistently than any other factor. Qualitative data informed findings from the quantitative analyses by providing experiential accounts about students' perceptions of themselves as assignment writers, their experiences when writing assignments, and how these experiences developed literacy practices that contributed to success. Additionally, qualitative data were collected from lecturers who convened first-year subjects and those who convened fourth-year subjects. The qualitative data indicated students' strong reference to experiences of writing and of seeking help. Both had shaped their self-perceptions as writers and these had changed over time. First-year students believed that knowing what lecturers wanted in writing assignments was an important factor in success. They described their efforts to access this information and to give lecturers what they thought was wanted. Fourth-year students recognised the same factor, but were more self-reliant in approaching an assignment task. The change to greater internal control appeared to be an outcome of encountering inconsistent and confusing information from external sources over their four years of writing assignments. For their part, lecturers of first-year students said that successful students knew what to write and how to write it. However, lecturers of fourth-year students believed knowing what to write should be subsumed by knowing how to write, and concentrated on the procedural aspect. They believed a coherent assignment resulted when students conceptualised subject matter in ways that enabled them to write academically. Findings in this study extend recent reconceptualisations of literacy as 'literacies' and socio-cultural, socio-cognitive theories about literacy as social practice. They demonstrate limitations of an apprenticeship model for acculturation and suggest a more agentic role for novice members in accounting for learning outcomes as students develop as assignment writers. The experiential accounts reported by members of the academic writing community described their shared and idiosyncratic perceptions of literacy practices and relations of these practices with success in assignment writing. Their descriptions enhance our understanding of the complexity and consequences of these experiences. They also account for why calls for the community to be more visible and explicit in sharing communal expectations of what is privileged and valued in academic assignment writing generally may not be a solution. Based on findings here, this is not a solution. Expectations need to be co-constructed within the community, among students, and lecturers within the context of the writing task. An outcome of understandings reported here is the development of a model from which factors, conditions and critical events that situate learning within a rhetorical conundrum may be described and predicted. This model offers a framework for members of a writing community to explicate individual experiences and expectations in ways that help everyone make sense of those critical events that contribute to a rhetorical conundrum and shape encultured knowledge.
Books on the topic "University writing assignments"
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Graves, Roger, and Theresa Hyland. Writing Assignments Across University Disciplines. Trafford Publishing, 2017.
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Graves, Roger, and Theresa Hyland. Writing Assignments Across University Disciplines. Trafford, 2017.
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Hughes, Geraldine, and Neil Murray. EBOOK: Writing up Your University Assignments and Research Projects. McGraw-Hill Education, 2008.
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Writing Up Your University Assignments And Research Projects A Practical Handbook. Open University Press, 2008.
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Stephenson, Cassandra A., and Ronald W. Stephenson II. Writing a University Level Paper in 3 Hours or Less: How to Quickly Write Research Papers, Article Summaries, and Other Assignments. Independently Published, 2017.
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Stephenson, Cassandra A., and Stephenson Ronald W. II. How to Write a University Level Paper in 7 Days: The Quick Guide to Writing Research Papers, Article Summaries, and Other Assignments. Independently Published, 2017.
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"Preparing and writing essays and assignments." In Studying at University. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203423165-21.
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Fidelak, Deanna, and Kristin Rodier. "Incorporating Academic Strategy Instruction in Assignment Design to Remove Barriers to Writing Assignments in Philosophy." In Handbook of Research on Applying Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7106-4.ch005.
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In early 2020, there was a faculty development workshop at MacEwan University on how to design philosophy writing assignments with fewer barriers commonly experienced by students with disabilities. This chapter streamlines the workshop and surveys barriers common to philosophy assignment guidelines: length, jargon, single-format, and a “don'ts” section. The authors contextualize these characteristics within the values, norms, and practices of academic philosophy. They present a case study of transforming Rodier's introductory philosophy guidelines before and after a UDL consult with Fidelak. They demonstrate the reasoning behind the transformation, including specific UDL applications and incorporating techniques from academic strategy instruction that address the hidden curriculum. In addition, they outline changes to in-class teaching that support students in completing assignments.
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Trabelsi, Soufiane. "An Evaluation of Sohar University GFP Students' Performance in Writing." In Methodologies for Effective Writing Instruction in EFL and ESL Classrooms. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6619-1.ch020.
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This chapter reports on a cross-sectional evaluation of the EFL writing abilities of Sohar University GFP (General Foundation Program) students. A representative sample of students (from elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels) and teachers is included with a corpus (i.e. content) analysis of students' writing assignments. The researcher also analyzes samples of intermediate students' writing portfolios. Thus, triangulation is drawn on by employing a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods in order to find answers to the major concern relating to what type of writing abilities Sohar GFP students have. A summary is offered of the implications and recommendations based on analysis and discussion of the findings.
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Designing Asynchronous Message Board Assignments for Deep Learning Discourse." In Meta-Communication for Reflective Online Conversations. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-071-2.ch009.
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Asynchronous message boards provide a critical space for university students to learn collaboration, support each other, and develop critical thinking skills in freshman and sophomore composition and research writing classes. How asynchronous message board assignments—icebreakers, discussion questions, summaries, reading analyses, lead-up assignments (research topic proposals, source evaluations, outlines, and drafts), and cumulative projects—all work towards building reflective online conversations and deep learning. This chapter addresses the evolving strategies that have been used in the deployment of publicly viewable assignments used on asynchronous message boards for freshman and sophomore writing classes since 1997 through the consortium WashingtonOnline (WAOL), which consists of 32 community colleges in Washington State.
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Sheu, Feng-Ru. "Learner Perceptions of Open Pedagogy in a Psychology Course." In Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1200-5.ch004.
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A research and course re-design project was undertaken to document, evaluate, and report the effects of implementing an OER-enabled pedagogy project in a psychology course within Georgia Southwestern State University. The project involved redesigning alternative and ‘renewable assignments' in a course using open textbooks to replace some paper writing assignments that are ‘disposable.' Data was gathered from 42 students enrolled in the course, including surveys, student reviews, and instructor feedback. Results indicated that students prefer the renewable assignments, which helped them better understand the content and prepare for the exams. They also like to be involved in the decision process, such as the choice of assignment, including the questions they created in the exams. Feedback from instructors indicated that effort and time was about the same or slightly more effective in terms of course preparation, implementation, and student performance. However, students' engagement was increased, and improvements can certainly be made for next semester.
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Ara�jo, Antonia Dilamar. "Chapter 18. Academic Genres in University Contexts: An Investigation of Students' Book Reviews Writing as Classroom Assignments." In International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.37514/per-b.2012.0452.2.18.
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Oravițan, Alexandru, Mădălina Chitez, Loredana Bercuci, and Roxana Rogobete. "Using the bilingual Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres (ROGER) platform to improve students’ academic writing." In Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Research-publishing.net, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1477.
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Learner corpora of written texts from academic writing assignments provide a practical resource for students, particularly in fostering academic writing skills. One such corpus is the newly available ROGER (Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres), a bilingual comparable corpus containing learner discipline-specific academic writing data in Romanian native language (L1) and English as a foreign language (L2). This paper aims to illustrate a series of academic writing teaching approaches supported by the ROGER platform (launched in May 2022) to be applied by tutors in an academic writing classroom setting. The results are structured according to Ädel’s (2010) methodological model for fostering rhetorical functions and specific phraseology in academic writing, coupled with addressing metadiscourse markers to better assist in the enhancement of students’ academic writing skills at the university undergraduate level.
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Semingson, Peggy, Amanda Hurlbut, Dana Owens, and Marla Robertson. "Scaffolding Digital Writing and Storytelling in Online-Only Teacher Education Courses." In Handbook of Research on Learner-Centered Pedagogy in Teacher Education and Professional Development. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0892-2.ch006.
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Higher education is seeing increasing trends towards online education (Allen & Seaman, 2010). This chapter provides a framework for the inclusion of digital writing with online teacher education courses. As writing instruction and writing pedagogy moves from print-based literacy practices towards multimodal and paperless/digital writing practices (Mills, 2010), teacher educators must stay current and informed about methods that are best suited towards digital writing pedagogies. We provide four practical examples that showcase ways to support online learners with digital writing; these examples are shared through brief vignettes from four university faculty within a large teacher education program where online learning predominates. Specific support tools such as clear instructions, rubrics, procedural checklists, descriptions of digital writing assignments, and connections to theory and scholarship provide a starting place for those interested in including digital writing within teacher education courses, particularly online teacher education courses.
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Nami, Fatemeh. "Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Synchronous Learning Management Systems." In Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7286-2.ch007.
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In line with calls for a more comprehensive understanding of the potentials of virtual environments for language learning/teaching, the chapter reports a study on the application of a synchronous learning management system (SLMS). The development of academic writing knowledge of a group of MA students attending an online academic writing course in a state university in Tehran was compared with that of a similar group in a face-to-face course in the same university. The analysis of participants' classroom discussions and their writing assignments indicated that although the writing knowledge of both groups improved by the end of the course, the nature of changes differed from the online group to the face-to-face one. It is suggested that while SLMSs have opened up new horizons for the instruction/practice of language skills, their uses are largely context- and user-specific. The finding of this study feeds into research on SLMS-based foreign language instruction.
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Yoshida, Asako. "Blended Learning Support for Undergraduate Students’ Research and Writing Skills Development." In Practical Applications and Experiences in K-20 Blended Learning Environments. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4912-5.ch023.
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In this exploratory study, a subject librarian and a writing instructor investigated the potential of designing blended learning around research paper assignments in the context of two foundational courses in the Faculty of Human Ecology at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The objective was to explore alternative, more embedded learning support for undergraduate students. The significance of blended learning support was situated in the broader literature of the teaching and learning practices in higher education. In this case study, descriptions of blended learning support for facilitating student learning, and of the main barrier to its implementation are provided. Based on what was learned in the exploratory study, the chapter provides working guidelines for designing and developing blended learning support, mainly drawing from Butler and Cartier’s (2004) research on academic engagement.
Conference papers on the topic "University writing assignments"
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Bannerot, Richard, Chad Wilson, and Colley Hodges. "Integrating Technical Communications Into an Early Design Course." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-79556.
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This paper describes the integration of a significant amount of instruction and technical communications assignments into an early design course in the BSME program at the University of Houston. While many of the examples presented in this paper were initially introduced into the course without outside involvement, many more have been developed and the initial assignments have been improved through collaborations with the recently established University of Houston Writing Center (2000) and the even newer (2004) Technical Communications Across the Curriculum Program in the Cullen College of Engineering. Approximately 55% of an individual’s course grade is based on a variety of team (18%) and individual (37%) writing and presentation assignments. In many ways, these assignments are similar to those given in a traditional technical communications course. The difference is that many of these assignments are directly linked to course material including, the design process, working in teams on design-fabricate-and-compete projects, engineering ethics, and intellectual property issues. The paper provides details of these activities (including examples of assignments) and the results from student surveys requesting feedback on their effectiveness.
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Al-thani, Noora, Jolly Bhadra, Nitha Siby, Enas Elhawary, and Azza Saad. "Innovative Tool to Educate High School Students through Research Based Learning." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0260.
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The need for enhanced engagement of school students for better behavioral outcomes in line with scientific learning and acquisition of science process skills have continually incited educators to strategize innovative teaching approaches. Meanwhile, innovations and research from the scientific community has consistently been prioritized, demanding highly skilled STEM labor in the global market, henceforth challenging educators to brace the next generation with high proficiency in STEM fields. The research study focuses on an out of school approach that caters to the industrial demands in STEM workforce, henceforth acquainting the high school students with research methodology for improving their technical efficiency and intellectual capacity in problem solving and critical thinking. The study program was conducted on 208 students from public schools in Qatar, who participated in 68 research projects, each project being engaged by a group students during a period of 2 months at Qatar University research laboratories. The performance of participants were analyzed by mixed methods implementing both quantitative data based on questionnaires and qualitative data based on feedback interviews from research mentors, schoolteachers and the participant students. The results of the program yielded positive outcomes from the stakeholders as the school students gained competences exhibited by under-graduate or graduate students like research self-efficacy, research skills and aspirations for scientific careers, accomplishing the objectives of the program. This study program henceforth was successful in bridging the gap between high school and university, as the participant students had an advantage in confidence over their peers in university laboratories and technical writing assignments.
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Thao, Nguyen Thi Ngoc. "A Corpus-Based Study: EFL College Students Using COCA to Improve Lexical Usage in Written Production." In The 4th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.132.16.
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Corpus linguistics has attracted growing interest from linguistics, researchers, and language educators. This area is potential for studies in linguistics as well as improvement in language learning. This study aims at investigating how a corpus-based website named https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/ - or COCA - helps improve students' lexical usage in written production. Participants were EFL students from a university using COCA over two months for revising vocabulary in their writing assignments. Data included the measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD) of the participants' revised assignments and their reflections/reviews on using COCA. Results reveal some positive changes in MTLD values, while participants' feedbacks suggest COCA is useful for gaining knowledge about lexis, and improving the use of collocations, synonyms as well as high-lexis despite some challenges of unfamiliar interface and overwhelming contents. The study implies the feasibility of applying corpora provided that there are sufficient facilities and careful training for learners.
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Langston, Sara. "Space education: challenges and strategies in teaching space policy to technical university students." In Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSAE). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184405.058.
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Law and policy provide the foundation for space actors engaging in space activities. Likewise, various levels of policy and regulation apply internationally, domestically, and even institutionally to both governmental and nongovernmental entities. Consequently, teaching the policy frameworks for space regulations and best practices is essential for a comprehensive university curriculum in space education. Challenges arise, however, when instructing technical and non-policy university students in humanities-centered topics. Reading comprehension, writing ability, critical thinking, and communication skills are critical elements of policy education, yet many technically oriented students struggle with these requirements. Given these are fundamental skillsets necessary for success in both academia and a dynamic space work force, adapting traditional teaching methodologies may be required to optimize desired learning outcomes for technical student audiences. Customizable strategies exist that can combine and scale these fundamental skillsets with substantive content and materials, providing a range of teaching and learning modalities for study, assessment, and experience. This presentation will highlight potential learning approaches tried at one aeronautical university to address these challenges. For instance, overarching strategies may include commencing with a visual of the student journey (much like a user journey in an investment pitch) delineating the value-added experience for students engaging in course content, and building substantive skill-based learning components which are introduced sequentially and with increasing level of difficulty. Examples of learning methodologies include applying Bloom’s Taxonomy in assignment creation. Most importantly: 1) Knowledge: involves identifying, understanding and remembering core content (e.g. pop quizzes, reading quizzes, cumulative review quizzes, question bank assessments); 2) Analysis: involves reading comprehension, interpretation, evaluation, analysis (e.g. essays, summaries, case studies); 3) Application: involves investigation, research and designing research projects (e.g. research articles, posters, digital presentations, short videos). Scaffolding assignments and artifacts into manageable pieces throughout the semester is key to guiding students towards success and reducing potential for ‘expert blind spots.’ Lastly, an end-of-course review and self-reflection of the student journey is helpful in underlining the critical thinking process and provide a visual review of the student journey in acquiring substantive knowledge, skills, and experience throughout the term
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Williams, Norman, John Beachboard, and Robert Bohning. "Integrating Content and English-Language Learning in a Middle Eastern Information Technology College: Investigating Faculty Perceptions, Practices and Capabilities." In InSITE 2016: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Lithuania. Informing Science Institute, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3449.
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The expanding role of English as an international lingua franca has had considerable effects on higher education (HE) provision around the world. English has become the medium of choice for African HE, and its position as a medium of instruction in the Europe and Asia is strengthening (Coleman, 2006; HU, 2009). English-medium tertiary education is also commonplace in the Middle East including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the context of the present study, where the vast majority of courses at university-level are conducted in English (Gallagher, 2011). The increasing use of English-medium programs presents particular challenges for content-area faculty who are in effect called upon to provide disciplinary instruction to students who may not be adequately language proficient. Furthermore, discipline-specific faculty may find themselves sharing responsibility to further develop their students’ English language proficiency. Information technology related schools face unique challenges. A significant majority of IT faculty come from computer science/engineering backgrounds and speak English as a second or third language. Most courses emphasize the development of technical skills and afford relatively few opportuni-ties for writing assignments. While exploratory in nature, the study proposes to identify and evaluate practices that can help IT colleges better develop their students’ proficiency in English.
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Jeikner, Alexandra. "The Pandemic, Mental Health & How Educators Can Promote – and Undermine – Academic Integrity." In 17th Education and Development Conference. Tomorrow People Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52987/edc.2022.013.
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ABSTRACT This presentation discusses student engagement and academic integrity as well as the responsibility of the educator based on insights gained through personal experience of teaching writing courses at an undergraduate level at Deree – The American College of Greece. The student body at Deree is diverse, consisting of students from Greece and 56 countries and regions, with English being the language of instruction. Research has shown that the demands of attending a foreign university can push students toward breaches of academic integrity. The overall question this presentation addresses is what insights educators gained through virtual classes held March 2020 up to June 2021, and the subsequent return to campus in September 2021. More specifically, the presentation explores the effects of this return on students’ academic performance and integrity as well as the role of the educator in encouraging student morale and morality while respecting mental health challenges. The initial hypothesis of this presentation was that the return to campus would be perceived as a joyous event, inspiring students to engage in their studies with more zest. However, personal observations indicate that the initial excitement and enthusiasm have turned into frustration, even panic, with students often falling behind with their assignments as well as disregarding feedback, course and college policies. On their side, and owing to their own mental and emotional exhaustion, fear of complaints, or compassion for the student, instructors might accept work potentially written by a ghost writer. This presentation stresses the need for educators to pull students toward authentic learning and offers some suggestions as to how to achieve a balance between respecting students and promoting academic performance. KEYWORDS: Foreign university; virtual classes; Covid-19; mental health; academic integrity; contract cheating; ghost writer; the role of the educator
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Weerathai, Thanakorn. "THE EFFECTS OF ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE PEER-TEACHER FEEDBACK IN A THAI EFL PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end102.
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"The teaching and learning of English speaking has recently posed several challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the challenges is that it is nearly impossible to conduct the teaching and learning in the physical classroom, affecting how students are given immediate feedback to. Teachers have to find different methods and techniques to use in their speaking classes during this situation, for example, giving live virtual presentations, pre-recording video clips and uploading them to online classrooms, giving online comments and feedback, and so on. In this mixed-methods study, the purposes were to investigate the effects of giving asynchronous online peer and teacher feedback to students after they had uploaded their three types of speech video clips, i.e., informative, persuasive, and entertaining, to the Google Classroom and to explore the students’ attitudes toward the two types of feedback. Participants were 25 fourth-year undergraduate students, majoring in English for International Communication at a university in northeastern region of Thailand. It was found that although the second speech video clip scores were higher than the first speech video clip scores, students still had difficulties in providing sufficient and specific peer feedback on the areas of organization and research citations, impacting growth in their speaking skills. Moreover, findings from the semi-structured interviews revealed that students viewed the two types of feedback positively. It helped them to gradually develop thinking and critiquing skills, and they also demonstrated increased confidence in speaking after they had received both types of feedback. This study proposes opportunities for discussion, i.e., providing sufficient peer feedback training and meaningful writing assignments, to hone students critiquing skills, especially on the areas of organization and research citations."