An Exploratory Investigation of Structured Writing Strategy Training for African-American College Students With Learning Disabilities.

Autor:	Nicholas, Karen R., Menchetti, Bruce M., Nettles, Stephen M.
Předmět:	WRITING COLLEGE students APPLIED psychology SELF-efficacy PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation UNIVERSITIES & colleges LEARNING COGNITION disorders LEARNING disabilities DISCOURSE analysis AFRICAN American college students
Zdroj:	Journal of College Reading & Learning; Fall2005, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p37-59, 23p
Abstrakt:	This exploratory study investigated the effects of a structured writing strategy on the quality of expository compositions produced by 36 African-American college undergraduates with learning disabilities. The strategy was structured to assist students in developing a topic sentence and main ideas into body paragraphs, and in using transition words throughout the composition. The strategy effects were compared for a group that received the specific, structured writing strategy training and a control group that received general strategy instruction. Students in the strategy instruction group significantly improved their use of supporting details in producing an expository essay. Although mean writing self-efficacy scores for both groups increased at the end of training, there were no significant differences between groups on a measure of writing self-efficacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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