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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-101616689161
ISBN-139781616689162
eBay Product ID (ePID)84462065
Product Key Features
Number of Pages164 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWriting: Processes, Tools and Techniques
Publication Year2010
SubjectEducational Psychology, General, Study & Teaching
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education
AuthorNathan L. Mertens
SeriesEducation in a Competitive and Globalizing World Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length7.1 in
Item Width10.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-012264
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal808/.0071
Table Of ContentPreface; Methods, Techniques & Tools for the On-Line Study of the Writing Process; Stepwise Computer-Based Scaffolding for Academic Writing: How it Affects Writing Activities, Performance, & Motivation; Readability Formulae, Cloze Tests, & Computerized Textual Analysis for Testing Language Skills: Are They Useful?; Strategies, Tools & Techniques for the Development of Written Communication Metasociocognitive Processes; Self-Assessment & Learning to Write; How Busy Clinicians Can Write Scholarly Papers; Teaching Undergraduates to Write Publishable Material; Breaking the Rules: Writing Reflectively for Yourself; Fostering the Self-Regulation of the Recursive Thinking Involved in Composition Writing; The Cognitive Self-Regulation Approach to Pre-Secondary Writing Instruction; Index.
SynopsisWriting is a complex and cognitively demanding activity. To be successful, writers need an understanding of the components of a quality test as well as knowledge of writing strategies that can be used to shape and organise the writing process. This book discusses academic writing as a complex task which involves a variety of cognitive and metacognitive activities; a model for teaching writing strategies and the sociocultural processes of written communication; rubric-referenced self-assessment and the quality of elementary and middle-school students' writing and self-efficacy and others., Discusses academic writing as a complex task which involves a variety of cognitive and metacognitive activities; a model for teaching writing strategies and the sociocultural processes of written communication; and, rubric-referenced self-assessment and the quality of elementary and middle-school students' writing and self-efficacy and others.