Search results for "Writing process"
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Writing as a Learning Tool: An Introduction
2001
This introductory chapter begins with a brief historical account of the writing-to-learn movement, emphasising especially the significance of the cognitive revolution for the development of both teaming research and writing research. The next section considers those theories of the writing process which have had the most profound impact on writing-to-learn, theories of writing as problem solving. Further on, theories and views of learning are discussed as essential determinants of approaches to writing as a learning tool. it is emphasised that current constructivist and social constructivist views imply the use of writing activities requiring transformations of knowledge, social interaction…
The Internet as a Pedagogical Tool in the Writing Process: A Research-Based Approach
2017
This article examines how the Internet can be used to ease the process of writing by suggesting resources for the planning, writing and revising stages and how they can be used to carry out a writing task. One such resource is the Blackboard platform, which serves as a discussion tool and for teacher-to-student and student-to-student feedback. Based on sound L2 writing theories and ICTs, a pedagogical proposal for a writing task is proposed and explained that involves invention and organizing techniques; peer and teacher evaluation using the Blackboard platform; activities to practice argumentative skills, the five-paragraph essay and paragraph structure and evaluation sheets with criteria …
Writing, Learning And The Development Of Expertise In Higher Education
2001
This chapter combines the issue of writing to learn with recent views of the development of prerequisites of professional expertise during higher education. The knowledge-intensive or symbolicanalytic work characteristic of today's professional jobs challenges educationalists to develop instructional methods that integrate domain-content learning with practising the general skills needed in today’s working life. It is argued here that constructivist and social constructivist views of learning offer promising starting points for developing instruction of this kind. Different traditional and novel fonns of writing are discussed from the viewpoint of these constructivist approaches and experti…
University Students´ Knowledge Construction during Face to Face Collaborative Writing
2014
Collaborative writing combines social processes of writing with cognitive knowledge construction processes, and thus may lead to deeper learning than individual working. This study examined students’ knowledge construction during face-to-face collaborative writing. University students (n = 21) prepared themselves for the collaborative task by reading about developmental theories in a course book and writing individual summaries of them. In small groups, the students discussed each others’ summaries and wrote a joint essay on one of the theories. The data comprise the students’ individual summaries (n = 21), the students’ discussions during the essay writing (8177 speech turns), and the stud…
Discussions of Part I Chapters
2016
This chapter is an opportunity for one of the authors of this book to question the other two authors in the light of issues raised in Chaps. 2– 5. It constitutes both a follow-up to discussions between authors which occurred over the writing process, and emergent issues—new discussions once the book was almost complete. Some fundamental issues are addressed, about the birth of mathematics (and its deep links with the birth of writing), the relationships between mathematics and other sciences, the interactions between conjecture and proof, and the role of visualisation and of gestures. The text is kept short in order to provoke the readers to reflect on these issues rather than for the autho…
Scripting as a pedagogical method to guide collaborative writing : university students' reflections
2020
A collaboration script is a set of instructions used to improve collaborative learning among students in technology-enhanced environments. Previously, university students’ perspective has been under-represented in the study on collaboration scripts. In this article, we focus on understanding students’ experiences in a scripted collaborative writing task, especially from the perspective of following the script. The study was conducted among undergraduate students (N = 91) taking a master-level educational science course at one university each in Finland and Belgium. Divided into 25 groups, each with three to five members, the students worked on collaborative writing tasks. During their share…
Awt (Associative writing tool)
2001
In this paper a sketch of a tool for supporting writing process is discussed as an example of an application using GZigZag framework. GZigZag as well as Ted Nelson's ZigZag metastructure are introduced in a nutshell.
Modelos de transmisión textual de los sermones de San Vicente Ferrer: la tradición manuscrita
2019
El presente artículo se propone reconstruir el proceso de escrituración de los sermones predicados por Vicente Ferrer. En la tradición textual manuscrita se pueden distinguir: las colecciones de esquemas y las que transcriben los sermones in extenso, fruto de la reelaboración de las notas tomadas por los reportadores. Se estudia, asimismo, el contenido literario de algunos manuscritos, aquellos en los que se propone la edición para todo el año como la redacción tolosana, con los volúmenes de tempore y de sanctis, o las colecciones dedicadas a un tiempo litúrgico determinado; se incluyen igualmente otros manuscritos que presentan series derivadas de algunas campañas de predicación.
Natural Language-Based Knowledge Extraction in Healthcare Domain
2019
There is a growing amount of data in the databases of hospitals. These data could be exploited to alleviate the decision-making process of hospital managers, physicians and researchers. However, these types of end-users often lack the expertise necessary for extracting those data from the database. Several approaches exist in the field of how to allow non-programmers writing queries in a convenient manner, but none of them has yet reached fully satisfactory results. This paper sketches a solution to this problem by introducing means for writing queries in a keywords-containing natural language thus alleviating the query writing process for the end-user. Introducing this approach in the know…
Current approaches to orthography instruction for spanish heritage learners: an analysis of intermediate and advanced textbooks
2015
As it is well known, heritage learners of Spanish have an advantage on oral production and aural comprehension over L2 learners. However, due to their lack of formal instruction in Spanish, their linguistic weaknesses lie on their literacy skills (reading and writing). In terms of writing skills, students mainly struggle with orthography issues (accentuation and spelling) and larger literacy skills (e.g. developing a thesis or organizing ideas). However, there is an important gap in the literature regarding orthographic acquisition since most of the research in the field on focus on form instruction has predominantly been on grammar acquisition (Anderson, 2008; Montrul and Bowles, 2008; Pot…