Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________ Title and Department ____________________________________ Date 1 EXAMINING THE INTEGRATION OF TALK AND WRITING FOR STUDENT KNOWLEDGE CONSTRU...

Preface Writing a thesis is often regarded as rather solitary labour. During my research I learned that the opposite is true, since writing this thesis would not have been possible without the support of several people who I would like to acknowledge in this preface. First and foremost I would like to express my gratitude to the members of my thesis committee. I would like to thank Prof. dr. H....

<p class="AbstractText"><em>This study explored the use of direct corrective feedback in Thesis Proposal writing course where students are expected to develop their undergraduate thesis proposal at Universitas Brawijaya and how can help deal with academic writing. The data were obtained from six who have taken Writing one lecturer taught using two instruments: an interview guide obs...

On the basis of the corpus of English Majors’ Composition of Ludong University (EMC corpus), this thesis analyzes the errors in Chinese English Majors’ English writing and the reasons resulting in the errors. The research reveals that in the EMC corpus the proportion of “grammatical errors” ranks the highest, followed by “wrong usage”, “syntactic errors” and “errors of discourse constructions a...

Peer-reviewing is a recommended instructional technique to encourage good writing. Peer reviewers, however, may fail to identify key elements of an essay, such as thesis and conclusion statements, especially in high school writing. Our system identifies thesis and conclusion statements, or their absence, in students’ essays in order to scaffold reviewer reflection. We showed that computational ...

This thesis builds on theory from the fields of computer supported cooperative work and computer supported collaborative writing and the example of work in the free and open source software development communities to describe “cooperation in parallel” — a mode of collaborative writing among parties with diverged goals and distinct documents. It examines the social and technological requirements...