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Ryan M. Ware; Julie L. Zilles – Written Communication, 2024
This article reports on a mentoring case from a transdisciplinary, longitudinal writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) initiative in which the situated complexities of integrating new writing pedagogies were observed and supported. Considering this case through an agential realist lens, we introduce the concept of "discursive turbulence":…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, STEM Education, Visual Measures, Educational Change
Joachim Grabowski; Moti Mathiebe – Written Communication, 2024
Assessing text quality as an indication of underlying skills still remains challenging; irrespective of the approach, many studies struggle with reliability or validity problems. If writing is considered problem-solving, a report must make the reader understand the described situation and call for its mental reconstruction. Therefore, text quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Grade 5, College Students
Xian Liao; Pengfei Zhao – Written Communication, 2024
Integrated writing (i.e., writing from sources) being a complex process, requires various linguistic and cognitive skills interacting with each other in a dynamic way. While recent studies have increasingly documented that writing processes are driven by a suite of cognitive abilities named executive function (EF), their roles in a literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Writing Exercises, Writing Skills
Social Positioning and Learning Opportunities in One Student's Textual Transition to College Writing
Brad Jacobson – Written Communication, 2024
Developing academic writers must continually position themselves discursively as they negotiate institutional, programmatic, and disciplinary contexts. The inextricable relationship of writing and identities raises questions of access to social identities in schools, a particularly salient issue when considering the complexities and challenges of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), High School Students, College Students
Messina, Cara Marta; Jones, Cherice Escobar; Poe, Mya – Written Communication, 2023
We report on a college-level study of student reflection and instructor prompts using scoring and corpus analysis methods. We collected 340 student reflections and 24 faculty prompts. Reflections were scored using trait and holistic scoring and then reflections and faculty prompts were analyzed using Natural Language Processing to identify…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Cues
Alexander, Patricia A.; Fusenig, Jannah; Schoute, Eric C.; Singh, Anisha; Sun, Yuting; van Meerten, Julianne E. – Written Communication, 2023
In this article, we share what we learned about undergraduates' struggles in writing quality summaries, comparison texts, and argumentative essays that were components of a unique course, Learning How to Learn. This course was designed to address core psychological issues that impede optimal learning for students from all majors, many of whom are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Academic Language
Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2023
Source-based writing is a complex and frequently occurring task type in postsecondary education. While a large body of research now exists investigating source-based student writing, few studies have used corpus-based methods to investigate L1 student performance on source-based writing tasks and to connect this performance to the holistic quality…
Descriptors: Native Language, Computational Linguistics, Writing Instruction, Information Sources
Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2023
Various forms of proofreading of student writing take place in university contexts. Sometimes writers pay freelance proofreaders to edit their texts before submission for assessment; sometimes more informal arrangements take place, where friends, family, or coursemates proofread. Such arrangements raise ethical questions for universities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Ethics, Writing Assignments
Hankerson, Shenika – Written Communication, 2023
Drawing on recent decades, literature in college writing that theorizes the importance of Critical Language Awareness (CLA) curricula for African American Language (AAL)-speaking students, this article offers empirical evidence on the design and implementation of a college writing curriculum centered on CLA and its influence on AAL-speaking…
Descriptors: Racism, Racial Discrimination, Black Dialects, African Americans
Wolfe, Christopher R.; Gao, Hongli; Wu, Junjie; Wang, Yizhu; Marroquín, Josselyn E.; Brace, Wylie – Written Communication, 2023
Guided by argumentation schema theory, we conducted five psychological studies in the United States and China on arguments about vaccination. Study 1 replicated research about arguments on several topics, finding that agreement judgments are weighted toward claims, whereas quality judgments are weighted toward reasons. However, consistent with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Immunization Programs, Program Effectiveness
Schneier, Joel – Written Communication, 2023
Current cognitive and sociocognitive models of writing conceptualize writing processes as complex interactions between multidimensional mechanisms that activate a writer's social motivations, psychomotor processes, and cognitive resources in order to engage in writing. These models have been developed through years of empirical research employing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Writing Processes
Lee, Eunjeong – Written Communication, 2023
Drawing on discussions of (de)coloniality and translanguaging, this article reports findings from a classroom-based ethnographic study, focusing on how a self-identified Latina bilingual student resists colonial constructs of language and literacies in her multimodal project. Based on an analysis of the student's multimodal composition, other…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students, Colonialism
Zhang-Wu, Qianqian – Written Communication, 2023
It is important to understand multilingual students' lived experiences and sense-making in their everyday written communication before rethinking the implementation of translingual writing in college composition classrooms. Unpacking multilinguals' written communication across social and academic contexts, this exploratory qualitative study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Code Switching (Language), Translation
Lin, Vivien; Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Chen, Howard Hao-Jan – Written Communication, 2023
In science disciplines, students need sufficient and well-designed support to successfully gain writing competence along the different stages of their writing development. This study examines effective inquiry-based writing pedagogies and the contextualization of scientific writing instruction for supporting student writers in the scientific…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Writing Instruction
Liu, Chang; Harwood, Nigel – Written Communication, 2022
This article presents findings from a study of a U.K. university writing centre regarding understandings of tutor roles, involving 33 Chinese international students, 11 writing tutors, and the centre director. The research used interviews and audio-recorded consultations as data to analyze and explore participants' beliefs and understandings. The…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Tutors, Writing (Composition), Laboratories