Improving the Writing Skills of Students in Introductory Psychology
| Autor: | James J. Brosamer, Robert Madigan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology Education Test (assessment) Presentation Writing skills Academic writing Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Rhetorical question 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Set (psychology) business 0503 education Composition (language) General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Teaching of Psychology. 17:27-30 |
| ISSN: | 1532-8023 0098-6283 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15328023top1701_6 |
| Popis: | This article describes a writing component for an introductory psychology course and reports its effects on students' writing skills. During the semester, each student wrote about 3,000 words in response to questions on weekly essay tests. Test questions were drawn from a larger set handed out in advance, permitting students to organize, write, and revise trial answers before the test. Essays were graded for content and writing skill. Two variations of this format are reported and evaluated for their impact on students' writing skills over the semester. The more successful program restricted essay questions to four rhetorical forms students encounter in freshman composition classes and graded the essays for orderly presentation of ideas. |
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