'There is no writing that is writing without teachers'—Teachers' role in the writing process of a seminar paper

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

Process Writing and Enhancement of Critical Thinking Ability: Is Writing a Vehicle or an Ingredient of Critical Thinking?

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between process writing (PW) and critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. Furthermore, the role of PW in the enhancement of CT was investigated. In so doing, 125 upper-intermediate language learners were selected from Islamic Azad University based on convenience sampling. The results of pretest administration indicated that particip...

Writing science: the abstract is poetry, the paper is prose.

EXPRESSIONISM I’m going to suggest that the four-part, quatrain model of the scientific abstract or IQ has served its term. What’s been missing all these years was an important, fifth subsection: The CONTROLS, the obvious, the critical, the perfect CONTROLS! Time’s come to expand the microcosm of the abstract: The cosmos according to Hubble Expands like the soap of a bubble. Let’s hope it’s not...

Is virus writing really that bad?

The Role of Computers in Writing Process

In this paper, the role of computers in writing process was investigated. Last 25 years of journals were searched to find related articles. Articles and books were classified under prewriting, composing, and revising and editing headings. The review results showed that computers can make writers’ job easy in the writing process. In addition, literature results revealed that teachers, peers, ins...