The need for effective writing instruction

Many students with writing difficulties have negligible editing skills at best. Existing research supports that a strategy approach to teaching writing conventions to students with learning disabilities is effective, particularly when the strategies involve mnemonics. Recognizing that classroom teachers are increasingly overburdened, our study offers an alternative setting for academic intervention – the after-school program – and focuses on an intervention utilizing a mnemonic designed to increase the efficacy of the time spent on editing in the writing process. This study investigates the impact of two instructional conditions on participants' editing skills: (1) the effects of direct instruction regarding writing conventions to a combination of direct instruction and (2) a mnemonic writing strategy from Step up to writing. Both approaches produced significant gains (p < .05). However, the combined approach exhibited a larger effect size of d = .77-.84 at post-test, as measured by TOWL-3 Contrived Composite scores.     

学术论文英文摘要的撰写与思考

英文摘要是英文读者阅读学术论文最为重要的信息源之一。当前我国学术论文英文摘要的质量欠佳,尚未达到国际公认的水平。从英文摘要撰写过程中的问题着手,通过对摘要撰写的内容、长度、常用句型、词汇选择和语法特征等方面进行分析研究,希望这种范式研究对学术论文英文摘要的写作提供比较切实可行的帮助,从而更好的为提升我国学术论文的价值和促进国际学术的交流和传播服务。     

关于英语写作教学的思考

以阅读指导写作，真正理解什么是英语思维模式。     

Baseline assessment of writing: the need for reconsideration

This article questions the usefulness to teaching of items to be used in baseline assessment of writing in the UK. Current requirements for national baseline assessment are intended to serve two very different purposes: assessment for management and assessment for teaching. It is argued that this duality of purpose can threaten teaching and overemphasise assessment for management. This article describes a small study investigating items on the baseline assessment scale developed by the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA, 1997a), which suggests that the SCAA criteria for baseline assessment of writing need to be reconsidered. This reconsideration can be sought in the light of research and evidence of children’s achievements. Finally the paper concludes that there needs to be greater clarity of purpose and a redefinition of the misleading term ‘baseline assessment’.     

对大学英语写作教学的几点思考

大学生写作水平差,其原因是多方面的,作者通过多年的教学实践,简单的分析了大学生写作水平差的成因并对大学英语写作教学提出几点思考。     

The need for research

Participants frequently must sustain counterpoised definitions of the situation in which they participate. This study reports an analysis of reporters’ efforts to sustain both a “presidential” and “press” definition of the presidential press conference by balancing deference for the President with critical confrontation.     

写作教学研究亟待开拓的领域

从四个方面阐述了写作教学亟待开拓的领域:一是要建设可操作性的理论体系;二要建构科学的检测体系;三要建立现代化教学技术体系;四要建设以训练为中心的教材体系。     

中西思维模式差异之于英语写作上的映射

写作是一个复杂的思维过程,是语言与思维相互作用的一个结果,因而培养英语思维意识是提高英语写作之基。对此重点分析了中西思维模式的差异及在英语写作上的映射并提出对教学的几点启示。     

计算机课件写作与学习理论研究

各种不同的学习理论,都曾对教育产生过不同程度的影响与推动作用,也影响和推动了CAI的发展,普通心理学研究了影响学习的智力因素和非智力因素,行为主义学习理论推进了“程序教学”。这些理论对CAI课件的写作,都有着非常重要的指导意义。     

就业导向下任务型高职英语应用文写作研究

在研究任务型语言教学理论和教学模式的基础上,建构以就业为导向的任务型英语应用文写作教学模式,并且运用于高职英语写作教学实践中。通过实证研究,该教学模式对减少学生英语写作焦虑和培养学生写作兴趣增强学生英语学习的自信心有积极影响,和此模式在高职英语写作教学中的可行性和有效性。     

Notes on writing subjects of action research

In this article, the author playfully represents his role as reader and interpreter of an article sent to him for review by editors of the journal Educational Action Research. By representing the specificity of his reader responses, the author shows how literacy practices function to create the identities of readers and writers. It is argued that a post-structural view of reading and interpretation helps those engaged in action research projects to understand that knowledge and identities are co–specified. Reports of action research, then, are not merely reports of what is learned through shared inquiry; they also reveal traces of how the subjects involved in action research are affected by their work.     

研究型大学科研组织的发展思考

研究型大学在开展高水平科学研究的过程中,科研组织的发展至关重要。探讨了大学在进行科学研究过程中科研组织的发展演变,并通过对国内外先进科研组织结构的分析,寻求对当今我国研究型大学科研组织建设的若干启示。     

《秘书写作》教学与《秘书写作》实践的差距研究

《秘书写作》教学与《秘书写作》实践的存在差距当是无争议的。《<秘书写作>教学与<秘书写作>实践的差距研究》一文直面两者差距,在课题研究的基础上,通过对比研究学生的实践写稿与题干原稿指出《秘书写作》的教学与实践之间存在三个方面的明显差距,同时指出写作心理、写作水平、文种熟悉度是产生两者差距的主要原因。