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Gains in Achievement with Access to Three Types of Scripted Activities on Elaboration in a Freshman Composition Class 

Boutwell, Ashli (2007-12-15)
This study investigated associations between pair and group scripted revision activities and the outcome variables of holistic scores and elaboration criterion scores on a high-stakes community college writing exam. The ...

Virtual Academic Community: Online Education Instructors’ Social Presence in Association with Freshman Composition Students’ Critical Thinking and Argumentation 

Paquette, Paige Fuller (2009-07-31)
There is much literature addressing challenges face-to-face freshman composition instructors encounter in developing college courses that foster critical thinking skills crucial to developing written argument. Composition ...

Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual 

Demott, Miles (2006-05-15)
Writing conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. ...