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Advanced College Credit Pathways: Six Undergraduate Students Reflect On Their Journeys As Writers, Candence Malhiet Robillard Aug 2018

Advanced College Credit Pathways: Six Undergraduate Students Reflect On Their Journeys As Writers, Candence Malhiet Robillard

Candence Robillard


This study explored the writing habits and behaviors of six undergraduate students who earned advanced college credit from the International Baccalaureate diploma, Advanced Placement exam scores, or through dual enrollment partnerships with accredited colleges. Using narrative and case study methods, the study investigated the relationship between high school advanced credit composition courses and the requirements of undergraduate writing. At the time of the study the participants had already completed a minimum of three semesters of study on a college campus. Participants met a total of three times over the course of one semester. In reflecting on their experiences and in …

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Mutual Adjustments: Learning From And Responding To Transfer Student Writers, Anne Ruggles Gere, Lizzie Hutton, Benjamin Keating, Anna V. Knutson, Naomi Silver, Christie Toth Feb 2017

Mutual Adjustments: Learning From And Responding To Transfer Student Writers, Anne Ruggles Gere, Lizzie Hutton, Benjamin Keating, Anna V. Knutson, Naomi Silver, Christie Toth

Anna V. Knutson

Transfer student writers, who comprise more than one-third of all college students, are simultaneously experienced writers and first-year students at their new institutions. Despite their complicated positions, these students have received very little attention from composition specialists. This article responds to the paucity of attention to transfer student writers by reporting on a multiyear study that alternated between investigations of the experiences of these students and programmatic changes designed to address their expressed needs and concerns. The guiding principle of this work, and of the advice offered to colleagues interested in supporting transfer student writers on their own campuses, is …

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Supporting Good Writing Instruction: The Hoosier Writing Project, Susan Adams, Steve Fox, Herb Budden Dec 2011

Supporting Good Writing Instruction: The Hoosier Writing Project, Susan Adams, Steve Fox, Herb Budden

Susan Adams

Presentation at the 2012 Indiana Student Achievement Institute (InSAI) Conference.

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The Medieval Writing Workshop, Alex Mueller Dec 2007

The Medieval Writing Workshop, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

If we compare elementary and secondary school classrooms today with their grammar school predecessors of the Middle Ages, we might find few similarities. The terrifying image of the medieval schoolmaster, seated in a chair with his birch in hand, ready to strike supplicant schoolboys for incorrect answers, does not match our more recent and comforting portrait of the teacher who circulates throughout the classroom and nurtures students through a student-centered curriculum. Yet, as an educator trained as both a medievalist and a high school English teacher, I am regularly provoked by the affinities I discover in medieval and modern pedagogies, …

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