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Rasteiro, Isabel; Limpo, Teresa – Written Communication, 2023
Research shows that writing motivation decreases throughout schooling and predicts writing performance. However, this evidence comes primarily from cross-sectional studies. Here, we adopted a longitudinal approach to (a) examine the development of attitudes toward writing, writing self-efficacy domains, and motives to write from Grade 6 to 7, and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Writing Attitudes
Sturk, Erika – Written Communication, 2023
This study explored disciplinary writing in grades 4-6 and the potential of writing to learn and learning to write across the curriculum to prepare the pupils for their future writing. Using Ivanic's discourses of writing as an analytical framework, observation protocols from 104 observers in 374 lessons in 76 Swedish schools were analyzed…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
Fang, Zhihui; Gresser, Valerie; Cao, Peijuan; Zhang, Huibin – Written Communication, 2022
Factual writing is a key macrogenre of American K-12 schooling that is also valued in workplace and society. This study examined the genre and register features of two subgenres of factual writing--biography and report--composed by 48 sixth-grade students in a curriculum unit on scientists and science-related careers aimed at developing students'…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Biographies, Reports, Writing (Composition)
Kuhn, Deanna; Hemberger, Laura; Khait, Valerie – Written Communication, 2016
In most assessments of students' argumentive writing and in most research on the topic, students write on topics for which they have no specific prior preparation. We examined development in the argumentive writing urban middle school students did as part of a two-year dialogic-based intervention in which students engaged deeply with a series of…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Middle School Students, Student Development
Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Kennedy, Kerrie – Written Communication, 2006
This article examines the influence of genre and gender on comments written by 108 sixth-grade teachers in response to two narrative and two persuasive papers. There were significant genre differences. Process, conventions, artistic style, and format were the focus of significantly greater numbers of comments directed to narrative writing. In…
Descriptors: Ideology, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Grade 6