This study investigates the practices of native, native-like and non-native speakers English in academic writing. The researchers developed validated a survey with Likert items. items were created using researchers’ personal experience, literature an open-ended three administered to 31 researchers. resulting was through cognitive interviewing piloting 30 respondents. conducted 190 participants ...

The purpose of this paper is to develop different guided writing strategies based on media richness theory and further evaluate the effects of these writing strategies on younger students’ writing attitudes in terms of motivation, enjoyment and anxiety. A total of 66 sixth-grade elementary students with an average age of twelve were invited to join the experiment for a period of twelve weeks. A...

There is considerable concern that students do not develop the writing skills needed for school, occupational, or personal success. A frequent explanation for this is that schools do not do a good job of teaching this complex skill. A recent meta-analysis of trueand quasi-experimental writing intervention research (S. Graham & D. Perin, 2007a) addressed this issue by identifying effective instr...