Widening access to writing support: beliefs about the writing process are key

Process Mining to Support Students' Collaborative Writing

Writing, particularly collaborative writing is a commonly needed skill. Investigating how ideas and concepts are developed during the process of writing can be used to improve not only the quality of the written documents but more importantly the writing skills of those involved. In this paper, process mining is used to analyze the process that groups of writers follow, and how the process corr...

How to deal with students' writing problems? Process-oriented writing support with the digital Writing Aid Dutch

Students at universities and colleges in Belgium as well as abroad often experience difficulties with writing (academic) texts in their native language. Several needs analyses have pointed out that the most frequent writing problems in Dutch are text structure and cohesion, academic style and, to a lesser extent, spelling. Despite many interventions such as extra writing classes or workshops, t...

Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process

For the past decade, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that when individuals wnte about emotional experiences, significant physical and mental health improvements follow The basic paradigm and findings are summarized along with some boundary conditions Although a reduction tn inhibition may contribute to the disclosure phenomenon changes in basic cognitive and linguistic process...

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...

It’s About the Science: Students Writing and Thinking About Data In a Scientific Writing Course