Download or read book The Hitchhiker s Guide to Writing Research written by Xinghua Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the work of established scholars from around the world to celebrate and honor the many ways in which Steve Graham has contributed to the advancement of teaching and researching writing. Focusing on writing development and writing instruction in different contexts of education, original contributions in this book critically engage with theoretical and empirical issues raised in Steve Graham’s influential body of work and significantly extend our understandings of the importance of writing in developing learners’ literacy and the roles of writing in teaching and learning processes. This book is organized around themes central to Steve Graham's work, including theories and models of writing, effective instructional methods in teaching writing, surveys on teaching and learning writing, and systematic review studies on writing. Apart from regular chapters, the book also features personal and scholarly reflections revealing the powerful ways in which Steve Graham’s work has influenced our thinking in the field of writing research and continues to open up new avenues for future research endeavors.

Download or read book Illuminating and Advancing the Path for Mathematical Writing Research written by Colonnese, Madelyn W. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical writing is essential for students’ math learning, but it’s often underutilized due to unclear guidelines. Mathematical writing is a mode of communication that provides teachers access to their students’ thinking and, importantly, offers students an opportunity to deepen their mathematical understanding, engage in mathematical reasoning, and learn a fundamental way to communicate mathematically. Notably, one needs to be able to judiciously combine mathematical symbols, representations, and text. However, more research is needed to exemplify the qualities of mathematical writing, develop implementation methods, and support teachers. Illuminating and Advancing the Path for Mathematical Writing Research, is a necessary comprehensive resource designed to enhance mathematical writing and promote equitable learning. This research book provides a comprehensive understanding of the current state of mathematical writing and illuminates various perspectives on moving the teaching and learning of k-12 mathematical writing forward. Mathematical writing is an important yet underutilized component of mathematical discourse, and this book offers further insight into understanding what it means to write mathematically for mathematics educators and researchers. It informs with research-based implementation strategies and creates purposeful professional learning opportunities. Ultimately, k-12 students will benefit from a more informed field because they will have access to a vital mode of mathematical reasoning and communication.

Download or read book Writing Instruction for Success in College and in the Workplace written by Charles A. MacArthur and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based strategies for rhetorical analysis, planning, evaluation and revision, critical reading of sources, and synthesis of sources that are part of college composition and applicable across contexts and course assignments. Equally important to the SSW approach is that students learn metacognitive strategies for goal setting, task management, progress monitoring, and reflection. Instructional methods include discussion of model essays, think-aloud modeling of strategies, collaborative writing, peer review and self-evaluation, and reflective journaling. Book Features: Integrates three critical components: strategies for critical reading and writing, metacognitive strategies to help students take control of their learning, and pedagogical strategies.Provides research-based approaches for teaching developmental writing courses, first-year composition, summer bridge programs, and first-year seminars.Offers thorough explanations of the strategies and instructional methods, with practical examples and support materials for instructors.Based on two years of design research and three experimental studies which found significant positive effects on writing quality and motivation with college students in developmental writing courses.

Download or read book Writing and Reading Connections written by Zoi A. Philippakos and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading instruction in grades K–12 and beyond. Contributors explore how to harness writing–reading connections to support learning in such areas as phonics and spelling, vocabulary, understanding genre and text structure, and self-regulated strategy development, as well as across content areas and disciplines. Special considerations in teaching emergent bilingual students and struggling literacy learners are described. User-friendly features include chapter-opening guiding questions, classroom examples, and action questions that help teachers translate the research and concepts into practice.

Download or read book Quality Instruction and Intervention Strategies for Secondary Educators written by Brittany L. Hott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Instruction and Intervention Strategies for Secondary Educators offers a summary of evidence-based instruction followed by the most up-to-date empirically validated interventions for students with and at risk for disabilities in grades 6–12. Featuring key questions, case studies, essential vocabulary, and tools that can be used in the classroom, this practical text is ideal for pre- and in-service teachers. After reading this book, general and special educators alike will be able to describe the components of effective instruction and intervention in each of the content areas (reading, mathematics, writing, science, and social studies), access empirically validated materials, and locate resources for continued learning

Download or read book The Little Brown Guide to Writing Research Papers written by Michael Meyer and published by Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first explains the purpose and value of the research writing assignment and then guides students through each step of the research writing process.

Download or read book The Everything Guide To Writing Research Papers Book written by Cathy Spalding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That important paper is due soon and you don’t know where to start. You’re out of ideas and out of time. Don’t panic-- writing great research papers is not as daunting a task as you think. It’s just a process—and with The Everything Guide to Writing Research Papers, you can master that process in no time. Professional educator and writer Cathy Spalding guides you step –by-step through the writing process—from brainstorming ideas to polishing your final work. With dozens of timesaving tips on organization, research, and revision, you’ll find the actual writing easier than ever before. This easy-to-follow handbook answers all of your questions: What are the different types of research papers—and which should you write? How can you focus your research efforts, saving time and aggravation? Yikes! You’re three pages short – now what? What can you do to protect yourself from plagiarism? How do you find and cite all of your sources? Perfect for high school and college students juggling multiple assignments, The Everything Guide to Writing Research Papers shows you how to take control of your assignments – before they take control of you!

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Download or read book Student and Teacher Writing Motivational Beliefs written by Steve Graham and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of students’ motivational beliefs about writing and how such beliefs influence writing has increased since the publication of John Hays’ 1996 model of writing. This model emphasized that writers’ motivational beliefs influence how and what they write. Likewise, increased attention has been devoted in recent years to how teachers’ motivational beliefs about writing, especially their efficacy to teach writing, impact how writing is taught and how students’ progress as writers. As a result, there is a need to bring together, in a Research Topic, studies that examine the role and influence of writing beliefs. Historically, the psychological study of writing has focused on what students’ write or the processes they apply when writing. Equally important, but investigated less often, are studies examining how writing is taught and how teachers’ efforts contribute to students’ writing. What has been less prominent in the psychological study of writing are the underlying motivational beliefs that drive (or inhibit) students’ writing or serve as catalysts for teachers’ actions in the classroom when teaching writing. This Research Topic will bring together studies that examine both students’ and teachers’ motivational beliefs about teaching writing. This will include studies examining the operation of such beliefs, how they develop, cognitive and affective correlates, how writing motivational beliefs can be fostered, and how they are related to students’ writing achievement. By focusing on both students’ and teachers’ beliefs, the Research Topic will provide a more nuanced and broader picture of the role of motivation beliefs in writing and writing instruction. This Research Topic includes papers that address students’ motivational beliefs about writing, teachers’ motivational beliefs about writing or teaching writing. Students’ motivational beliefs about writing include: • beliefs about the value and utility of writing, • writing competence, • attitudes toward writing, • goal orientation, • motives for writing, • identity, • epistemological underpinnings writing, • and attributions for success/failure (as examples). Teacher motivational include these same judgements as well as beliefs about their preparation and their students’ competence and progress as writers (to provide additional examples). This Research Topic is interested in papers that examine how such beliefs operate, develop, are related to other cognitive and affective variables, how they are impacted by instruction, and how they are related to students’ writing performance. Submitted studies can include original research (both quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods), meta-analysis, and reviews of the literature.

Download or read book Writing Research Papers written by Melissa Walker and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth, process-oriented guide takes students through the research process step-by-step, following five students from across the disciplines throughout their research projects from developing interests, investigating sources, and focusing ideas to drafting, revising, and producing finished papers.

Download or read book So Long and Thanks for All the Fish written by Douglas Adams and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new? “The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe

Download or read book The High School Student s Guide to Writing a Great Research Paper written by Erika Eby and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to writing a research paper, covering such topics as finding sources, taking research notes, creating an outline, writing the first draft, and completing the final version.

Download or read book The Curious Researcher written by Bruce P. Ballenger and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring an engaging, direct writing style and inquiry-based approach, The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers , 9th Edition stresses that curiosity is the best reason for investigating ideas and information. An appealing alternative to traditional research texts, The Curious Researcher stands apart for its motivational tone, its conversational style, and its conviction that research writing can be full of rewarding discoveries. Offering a wide variety of examples from student and professional writers, the text encourages readers to find ways to bring fact-based writing to life. A unique chronological organization sets up achievable writing goals along with week-by-week guidance. Full explanations of the technical aspects of writing and how to document source-based papers help readers develop sound research and analysis skills. The 9th Edition has been revised with new features and sections, a new thematic table of contents, and up-to-date coverage of MLA style."--

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization written by Connie Wanberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational socialization is the process by which a new employee learns to adapt to an organizational culture. This crucial early period has been shown to have an influence on eventual job satisfaction, commitment, innovation, and cooperation, and ultimately the performance of the organization. After decades of research on organizational socialization, much is now known about this important process. However, some confusion still exists regarding what it means to be socialized. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization brings comprehensive reviews of the scholarly literature together with perspectives on what is being done in organizations to integrate and support new employees. The first section introduces the principles and practice of employee socialization and provides a history of the field, and the second section focuses on outcomes and antecedents of socialization. The third section on organizational context, systems, and tactics covers an extensive number of topics, including diversity, person-organization fit, and social networks, and special contexts such as socialization into higher-level jobs, and expatriation. The fourth section reviews process, methods, and measurement. The fifth section goes "beyond the organizational newcomer" to examine socialization in special contexts. The sixth section expands on practice-related issues and walks the reader through two case studies, one in an academic setting and another in a corporate setting. The final chapters provide a "best practices" approach, based on the highest quality research, summarize the state of the field, and offer an agenda for future research as well as suggestions for potential research-practice partnerships. Unique and thorough in its approach, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization is a useful single source of information across the range of research relevant to organizational socialization.

Download or read book Writing Research Papers written by Stephen Weidenborner and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2004-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A friendly, easy-to-use guide, Writing Research Papers walks students through every step of the research process — from finding a topic to searching the Web to formatting the final manuscript. The seventh edition is thoroughly revised to help students find and evaluate the very best sources amidst the flood of information that electronic searching makes available.

Download or read book The Plain Man s Pathway to Heaven written by Arthur Dent and published by Soli Deo Gloria Publications. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the all-time Puritan devotional classics. It went through 25 editions by 1640, and 47 editions by 1831. There are six sections in this book on man's misery by nature, the corruption of the world, the marks of the children of God, how hard it is to enter into life, the ignorance of the world, and the sweet promises of the gospel.