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.

Reading and Writing Strategies

2014 ◽  
pp. 220-232
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.

scholarly journals Reading and Writing Skills: The Challenges of Teaching at College Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Ali Zaiter
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
College Level ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
To Come ◽  
Paper Documentation ◽  
Main Ideas

Throughout my teaching career I can claim that reading and writing are interchangeable skills. One cannot improve without the other.That is why I keep asking my students how we can improve our reading and writing skills? They give unclear answers simply because they do not read and write academically; they just read and write to pass exams and get a degree to get a job or wait for a promotion. At this point, students should be motivated well enough so that they like reading and writing as a means of improving their academic performance. To solve these problems or challenges, I have made claims that there are common grounds between reading and writing. Both require certain skills such as note-taking, good language as an aid to understand any topic and to write well. Both reading and writing need topics to read and write about. Similarly, reading and writing require a student, who should have a good command of rich vocabulary to understand topics, and to choose words that suit any topic they may tackle in English. However, there are basic differences between reading and writing. Firstly, in the process of reading, students focus their attention on the topic and the main idea. However, in the process of writing, students need to read as much as possible to find a topic to write about. Furthermore, during reading, students should take notes of the main ideas. However, on tests, students do not need to use documentation, as, in the process of writing a research paper, documentation is a must to avoid plagiarism. Thus, this paper tackles teaching reading and writing for EFL students at the college level in the Arab world and provide remedies based on observation, experience, and corrections of thousands of students’ exercises, assignments, and exams. The researcher has delved into many research areas to come up with remedies and recommendations for the challenges discussed in the article.

scholarly journals Portfolio Building: The relationship with literacies in students’ everyday lives

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Angela Brzeski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Further Education ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores some propositions about how students’ everydaylives may interact with their success at learning in a large Further EducationCollege in England. Some students, on paper, have all the appropriate entryqualifications, but still struggle to complete their courses. Indeed, some donot complete at all. So, what could be done to help these students achievesuccess? As a member of a large-scale research project team, I have beeninvestigating the home literacies of further education students. Papen(2005a:14) points out that ‘it is useful and necessary before any interventioncan be planned, to carry out research which identifies learners’ everydayliteracy practices’. Of course, there are many other aspects of people’severyday lives that will influence their learning success. However, in thisarticle I want to focus on the possibility of the influence of home literacypractices, by exploring how the reading and writing in the everyday lives ofstudents could be drawn upon and utilized in order to help these students tosucceed on their chosen college courses.

scholarly journals Agency in the Writing Center: Examining the Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Writing Center ◽  
Writing Centers ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
College Level ◽  
Student Autonomy ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Embedded Model

In college-level English courses, students often struggle to achieve satisfactory results in their writing. To remedy this, they seek help at campus writing centers, where a tutor helps them improve their writing skills and their academic performance. Yet, students experience tension between the classroom and the writing center that universities should seek to minimize. In my research, I discovered how different learning methods may either foster or suppress student autonomy. Further, I found that current methods—such as the course-embedded model for mitigating the tension between the writing center and the classroom—fail to empower the student. Using Rutgers University and its style of minimalist tutoring as a benchmark, I discuss the topics of autonomy and agency, student-led negotiation with authority, lack of academic motivation, and how we can bridge the pedagogical gap between the writing center and the classroom.

scholarly journals THE NEED OF ENGLISH AT HIGHER EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Yulia Hapsari ◽  
Esti Junining ◽  
Devinta Puspita Ratri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The University ◽  
English Language Skills ◽  
Speaking Skills

Issues related to the need of English at higher education continue to be a discussion among scholars. Many believe that there is a positive relationship between English language skills of university students and their academic performance, and that English language skills are highly valued as a graduate attribute for employability. However, there are still few actions taken to gain information regarding which specific English language skills needed by educators and academic support staff. Universitas Brawijaya (UB) as one of the prominent higher education institutions in Indonesia is continuously taking actions to keep improving the quality of its graduates. One of the actions is to help its students to have a decent level of English language skills in order to help them to be ready to compete in work market that is going global. To reveal English language skills needed by bachelor graduates of the university as well as the reasons behind the need, sets of questionnaire were distributed to the educators in this case represented by the deans and academic support staff and the heads of academic support units both in the faculty and university level. The data from the questionnaires were then analyzed qualitatively. The findings of this study demonstrated that the educators need Reading and Writing skills more than the other two skills. This finding supports the idea that reading and writing skills are desperately needed to increase the number of publication in UB. Different from this result, the academic support staff perception on the need of English for the employees is on speaking skills. They think that speaking skills are the most needed skills for the employees to be able to handle the guest, and as a speaker of the units.Keyword: need of English, English language skills, higher education

scholarly journals Experiencia de intervención educativa para mejorar la calidad de escritura académica de los estudiantes de posgrado

2016 ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lic. Jesica Franco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
New Learning

Uno de los grandes desafíos en la enseñanza universitaria es lograr un estándar de calidad en los escritos académicos de sus estudiantes. Las dinámicas de lectura y escritura en este nivel implican el desarrollo de nuevas habilidades asociadas a la comprensión lectora de un gran volumen de información, al análisis crítico y estilo académico. En México, concretamente, las universidades y sus docentes están al tanto de las carencias de estas habilidades y saben de las dificultades que enfrentan sus estudiantes a la hora de producir textos académicos; no obstante, son muy pocas las propuestas que existen para tratar esta problemática. Por tal motivo, la intervención educativa que hemos llevado a cabo buscaba, principalmente, una solución para mejorar la calidad de escritura académica de los estudiantes de posgrado. Esto se ha logrado mediante la implementación de un manual y un seminario que asistió a los alumnos en el proceso de adquisición de nuevas técnicas. Como resultado, los estudiantes, además de haber mejorado sus habilidades en lectura y escritura, ganaron confianza y mayor comprensión del estilo académico. AbstractOne of the great challenges in higher education is to achieve a quality standard in the academic writings of its students. The dynamics of reading and writing at this level involves the development of new skills associated with reading comprehension of a large volume of information, critical analysis and academic style. In Mexico, especially, universities and teachers are aware of the lack of these abilities and the difficulties faced by their students to produce academic essays: however, only very few proposals exist to address this problem. Therefore, the educational intervention conducted sought a solution to improve the quality of academic writings in graduate students. This has been achieved through the implementation of a manual and seminar, which helped students in the acquisition of new learning techniques. As a result, students also improved their reading and writing skills, gained confidence and a greater understanding of the academic style. Recibido: 21 de febrero de 2015Aceptado: 10 de noviembre de 2015

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