Writing Buddies: Developing Peer Support to Differentiate Instruction

A physician peer support writing group.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Barriers to publication can be overcome through a peer support writing group in an academic department of family practice. This study describes the experience and outcomes of a writing group in a family practice department. METHODS A writing group was established to provide collaboration in identifying potential research and/or writing projects, to assist individual ...

A Writing Support through Peer Reviewing

For communicable writing, reviewing and revising is essential. In this paper, we propose an SNS-based environment to improve writing by repeated collaborative reviewing. The results of an experiment comparing the system against face-to-face collaborative writing show that while face-to-face learners wrote better reports quickly, the system-users could also write reports of the matched quality i...

A reciprocal peer review system to support college students' writing

As students’ problem-solving processes in writing are rarely observed in face-to-face instruction, they have few opportunities to participate collaboratively in peer review to improve their texts. This study reports the design of a reciprocal peer review system for students to observe and learn from each other when writing. A sample of 95 undergraduate students was recruited to construct texts ...

Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Developing Reading and Writing

formulaic writing: a novel approach to writing instruction

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...