Contextualizing Instruction for Struggling Writers

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-178
Author(s):  
Lisa Nienkark
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Education ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
College Level ◽  
Writing In The Disciplines ◽  
Struggling Writers ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Skills Lab ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Version 2.0

During the past decade, much reform has taken place within reading and writing developmental education at community colleges. One area of reform has focused on reducing the number of developmental education credits taken while accelerating the students’ literacy growth. This article describes a pilot project where, instead of taking a developmental education reading and writing course, the students co-enrolled in a zero-credit social sciences skills lab and at least one college-level gateway course. The lab focuses on reading and writing in the disciplines. Using classroom examples, the article also outlines the pedagogical approaches used in the lab. This 2018–19 pilot was characterized as promising, using prescribed institutional success metrics; as a result, version 2.0 will be implemented for 2021–22.

scholarly journals Do Colleges Perform the Same Following Developmental Education Reform? The Case of Florida’s Senate Bill 1720

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinye Hu ◽  
Shouping Hu
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Developmental Education ◽  
White Students ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
College Level ◽  
Passing Rates ◽  
College System ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Florida College

AbstractDevelopmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various institutional trajectories of cohort-based course passing rates in the post-policy period. Employing longitudinal data analysis, we found that colleges performed similarly regarding cohort-based passing rates in both college-level English and combined math courses before DE reform and had a similar elevation in the cohort-based English course passing rates when DE reform took place in 2014. However, colleges experienced different change patterns in the years following DE reform. Specifically, colleges located in rural areas and with more White students experienced relatively lower college-level English passing rates in the post-policy period than their counterparts. Different colleges had slight differences in the trajectory of college-level math passing rates by cohort after SB 1720 in 2014, but institutional characteristics in this study did not adequately capture inter-institutional differences.

scholarly journals A Little Something Goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus

2021 ◽  
pp. 007542422098206
Author(s):  
Claudia Claridge ◽  
Ewa Jonsson ◽  
Merja Kytö
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Functional Profile ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Related Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
Version 2.0 ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Late Modern

Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, have remained by and large a neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among downtoners, the adverb little or a little stands out as the most frequent item. It is multifunctional and serves as a diminishing and minimizing intensifier and also in non-degree uses as a quantifier, frequentative, and durative. Therefore, the present paper is devoted to the structural and functional profile of ( a) little in Late Modern English speech-related data. The data source is the socio-pragmatically annotated Old Bailey Corpus (OBC, version 2.0), which allows, among other things, the investigation of the usage of the item among different speaker groups. Our research charts the semantic and formal uses of adverbial little. Downtoner uses outnumber non-degree uses in the data, and diminishing uses are more common than minimizing uses. The formal realization is predominantly a little, with very rare determinerless or modified instances, such as very little. Little modifies a wide range of “targets,” but most frequently adjectives and prepositional phrases, focusing on human states and circumstantial detail. With regard to variation and change, adverbial little declines in use over the 200 years and is used more commonly by speakers from the lower social ranks and by the lay, non-professional participants in the courtroom.

Biography and Autobiography

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Jacob's Room

This chapter explores the centrality of biography and autobiography to Woolf’s reading and writing life, and to her cultural milieu, in which experiments in life-writing were a crucial aspect of the modernist reaction against the Victorian era. It examines Woolf’s deep engagement in her fiction with life-writing forms, from the bildungsroman of The Voyage Out to the play with conventional biographical forms of Jacob’s Room, Orlando, The Waves, and Flush and the autobiographical foundations of To the Lighthouse. It also examines her biography of Roger Fry, and her own experiment in memoir-writing, the posthumously published ‘A Sketch of the Past’, in the context of concerns with the nature of memory, identity, and sexuality.

The right hemisphere: neuropsychological functions

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 693-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Heilman ◽  
Dawn Bowers ◽  
Edward Valenstein ◽  
Robert T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Hemisphere Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere Dysfunction ◽  
Neuropsychological Functions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fine Print

✓ In the past two to three decades, clinicians and neuroscientists have been studying the functions of the right hemisphere. Neither hemisphere seems to be dominant in the absolute sense. Each appears to be specialized and is dominant for different functions. However, most functions require the cooperation of both hemispheres. When one is damaged, the other can often compensate for the damaged one. Lesions of the left hemisphere are associated with language (speech, reading, and writing) and praxic disorders, and lesions of the right hemisphere can result in visuospatial, attentional, and emotional disorders. The authors review some of the major behavioral disorders associated with right hemisphere dysfunction and concentrate on three major types of disorders — visuospatial, attentional, and emotional. Although not all the behavioral defects associated with right hemisphere damage can be subgrouped under these three types, they are the ones most often associated with right hemisphere lesions.

Reading and Writing Strategies

2016 ◽  
pp. 1162-1175
Author(s):  
Tanya Sturtz ◽  
Darrell Hucks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
College Level ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Student Transition ◽  
Program Of Study ◽  
Incoming Freshmen ◽  
To Come

In the field of education, students are not only expected to come to college with the reading and writing skills needed to successfully complete their program of study but also to enter the profession upon graduation with the ability to teach the next generation these skills. At the authors' institution of higher education, as with other higher education institutions, the reading and writing skills of incoming freshmen is a concern across the campus. To address this concern, two education faculty members created a reading and writing program. The program would prepare incoming freshmen with skills and strategies they could use to be successful in their college courses, as well as support student transition and retention. The pilot study created will address a concern raised in the literature regarding the under-explored reading research at the college level. To this end, this chapter shares the process involved in teaching the program and the experiences of the first cohort of students enrolled in the program.

Mega-Doses of Behaviour Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Agoraphobics*

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton S. Rapp ◽  
Martyn R. Thomas ◽  
Eleanor C. Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cost Effective Treatment ◽  
Intensive Program ◽  
Set Up

This was a pilot project set up to test the feasibility of effectively and inexpensively treating agoraphobic patients who had not responded to adequate trials of behaviour therapy (and other therapy) in the past. We employed a quantitatively intensive program of exposure therapy, calisthenics and muscular relaxation, and have explained the rationales for the choice of each treatment. The results were gratifying in four of the five patients, with follow-up to three years. This pilot project enabled us to set up a cost-effective treatment for all forms of agoraphobia which is as efficient as other programs described. It has also highlighted the fact that some patients exist who may do poorly on schedules of behaviour therapy which are adequate for some patients, and yet may do well if the amount of treatment is drastically increased.

Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture*

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Siraisi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Culture

In many different ways Renaissance physicians concerned themselves with the reading and writing of history. This article examines the role of historical interests in learned medical culture and the participation of physicians in the broader historical culture of the period.

The Facts on Facts: Adaptations to a Reading and Writing Course

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delores K. Schriner ◽  
Matthew Willen
Keyword(s):  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Writing Course
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