Writing Together: Reclaiming Dialogue Journals as a Mutually Humanizing Teaching Practice

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...

The Effect of Using Electronic Dialogue Journals on English Writing Performance of Jordanian Students

Writing as a Teaching and Learning Tool in SMET Education

This article reports on a research study designed to address the role of writing in terms of the assessment of student learning. The two-phase study involved an instructional technique for incorporating writing into the curriculum for non-majors. This technique was developed to bring science and engineering topics to the forefront in a new introductory physics course entitled Physics for a New ...

Writing a Winning Teaching Statement

When you apply for a job or come up for tenure, you will be asked to submit a teaching statement. Of course in some instances, a teaching statement is not a serious factor in the hiring or the tenure process. An institution requires a statement simply to send the message that it regards teaching as important. And it is no doubt the case that a poor teaching statement can hurt more than a strong...

THE WRITING PROCESS: An Overview of Research on Teaching Writing as a Process

Contemporary literacy theory argues that teaching students how to write is a means to more fully engage them as readers and in literacy learning. The writing process is utilized in many U.S. classrooms. This method emphasizes the recursive processes of prewriting, drafting, editing, and revising. The purpose of this study reviews research about the evolution and effectiveness of the writing pro...