Written Feedback to Support Students’ Higher Level Thinking About Texts in Writing

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

The Relationship between EFL Students’ Writing Motivation, Self-Perceived Writing Intelligence, and Attitude toward Written Feedback

The study of individual difference variables in the realm of written feedback is one of the significant lines of research which has been reinvigorated in the last few years. These variables are believed to affect both students’ engagement with feedback and their writing improvement. The present correlational study investi- gated the relationship betw...

Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts

This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the British National Corpus covering a range of genres. Several classes of simple lexical and syntactic features that differ substantially according to author gender are identified, both in fiction and in non-fiction documents. In particular, we find significant differences between maleand female-authored docum...

The Effect of Written Corrective Feedback on EFL Students\' Writing Accuracy

The present study explores the effect of providing different types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on 79 Iranian EFL learners’ writings over time through a pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test. In this way, the study first aims to investigate the extent to which different types of WCF result in improved accuracy in writing over a period of two months, and then maintain...

Critical Thinking and Writing for Nursing Students

This example of an analytical essay is presented in association with Price, B and Harrington, A (2010) Critical Thinking and Writing for Nursing Students, Exeter, Learning Matters. Readers are introduced to the process of critical and reflective thinking and the translation of these into coursework that will help them to achieve better grades in nursing courses. Stewart, Raymet, Fatima and Gina...