“Your writing, not my writing”: Discourse analysis of student talk about writing

Let Us Talk : Oral Communication to Enrich Student Writing and Writing Instruction

Tuning your writing

In the Writer’s Craft section we offer simple tips to improve your writing in one of three areas: Energy, Clarity and Persuasiveness. Each entry focuses on a key writing feature or strategy, illustrates how it commonly goes wrong, teaches the grammatical underpinnings necessary to understand it and offers suggestions to wield it effectively. We encourage readers to share comments on or suggesti...

Writing Your First Paper

s also typically have a length and/or structure specified by the institution to whom you plan on submitting your paper. You will need to follow directions on how to formulate your abstract to conform to the publisher’s rules.

Writing Analytics for Epistemic Features of Student Writing

Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processin...

Step 6 : Writing Your Hypotheses

Introduction To determine if a theory has the ability to explain, predict, or describe, you conduct experimentation and observation to test inferences derived from the theory. For example, a general inference based on experience and research may be that “extroverted students are more successful in the traditional learning environment than the distance education learning environment” or “communi...