Implementing Writing Support Circles with Adult Learners in a Nonformal Education Setting: Priority, Practice, and Process

Autor/inn/en	Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Rocco, Tonette S.
Titel	Implementing Writing Support Circles with Adult Learners in a Nonformal Education Setting: Priority, Practice, and Process
Quelle	In: Adult Learning, 23 (2012) 2, S.76-81 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1045-1595
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Nonformal Education; Writing (Composition); Research Universities; Pilot Projects; Adult Learning; Adult Students; Workshops; Writing Skills; Higher Education; Academic Discourse; Hispanic Americans; Writing Improvement; Surveys; Feedback (Response); Urban Education; Masters Programs; Females; Writing Assignments; Homework; Evaluation; Schools of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Schreibübung; Forschungseinrichtung; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult; Adults; Erwachsenenalter; Schüler; Schülerin; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Discourse; Diskurs; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hausaufgabe; Evaluierung; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Abstract	Most students come to their graduate programs with academic writing skills insufficient to excel in their studies. A lack of academic writing skills among graduate students has been a problem in a college of education at a large southeastern public research university where the project described in this article was implemented. To address this lack of academic writing skills, a new service, Writing Support Circles (WSCs), was designed and implemented for a small group of Latina students supported by a grant as a pilot program. WSCs are a series of workshops intended to create a community of learners who work together on improving their academic writing with guidance of a facilitator. The purpose of this article is to share the authors' experiences with designing and implementing WSCs with adult learners in a nonformal education setting at a university. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10