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Approaches for Collaboration: Student Perceptions on Writing Together

Cecil, Ellen Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1435789381

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
For my thesis, I conducted a teacher-researcher study which focuses on first-year composition students’ perspectives on team writing. In this study, I examine two different pedagogical approaches for teaching team writing. In both of my first-year composition sections, I used two different methods for grouping students: one where students kept the same team throughout the semester (Class A) and one where they formed different teams for each of the two team writing projects (Class B). My study examines student views through a collection of different student generated data. My thesis answers the following interrelated questions: what are first-year students’ experiences with collaborative writing? what suggestions do they have for improving pedagogy for composition? what practices may best facilitate collaborative writing? And what grouping method for team projects seemed to work best for them? My thesis concludes by offering instructors suggestions for improving student collaborative writing based on my findings.
Heidi McKee (Committee Chair)
Jason Palmeri (Committee Member)
Michele Simmons (Committee Member)
74 p.
Education; Rhetoric
collaboration; pedagogy; team writing; collaborative writing; first-year composition

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  • Cecil, E. M. (2015). Approaches for Collaboration: Student Perceptions on Writing Together [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1435789381

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cecil, Ellen. Approaches for Collaboration: Student Perceptions on Writing Together. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1435789381.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cecil, Ellen. "Approaches for Collaboration: Student Perceptions on Writing Together." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1435789381

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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