IMPROVING STUDENTS� WRITING NARRATIVE THROUGH WRITING GAMES FOR ACCELERATION CLASS

Improving Writing in Primary Schools through a Comprehensive Writing Program

This study examined the effects of an innovative comprehensive writing program in upper primary education on students’ writing performance and on teachers ́ classroom practices, beliefs and skills. The program focused on the communicative nature of writing, on writing as a process, and on explicit teaching of five genre-specific writing strategies. It was implemented by 43 teachers in their regu...

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

Improving the writing skills of college students.

Advanced writing skills are an important aspect of academic performance as well as of subsequent work-related performance. However, American students rarely attain advanced scores on assessments of writing skills (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2002). In order to achieve higher levels of writing performance, the working memory demands of writing processes should be reduced so that...

Writing for video games

This paper is a survey of the process and technology used for video games and tackles the problem of writing them. The first part of the paper addresses the general state of the art in the design of video games : market and technology constraints, production process. The second part is devoted to the writing of games practices and technology constraints.

Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a null-hypothesis conclusion, and can appreciate and use methodol...