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Assessing Competency in Business Writing

Business Communication Quarterly, 1998
Assessing the level of improvement of students' writing competency during a semester is becoming increasingly important for business communication instructors. When conducting an assessment, instructors need to be aware of issues that will affect reliability and validity.
Iris I. Varner, Paula J. Pomerenke
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Reading and Writing Competencies of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The current practice of minimum competency testing (MCT) presents a number of problems for regular students and their peers with handicaps. In this research, the communication performance of students with learning disabilities and that of their regular class peers on the Florida State Student Assessment Test-II (SSAT-II) was analyzed; item performance,
B, Algozzine, D J, O'Shea, K, Stoddard, W B, Crews   +3 more
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The Wheel of Writing: a model of the writing domain for the teaching and assessing of writing as a key competency

The Curriculum Journal, 2016
ABSTRACTThe model presented in this article aspires to represent a theoretically valid and coherent definition and description of writing, as a basis for teaching and assessing writing as a key competency in school. It represents a critique as well as an extension of previous alternatives in that it views writing as a culturally and individually ...
Kjell Lars Berge, Lars Sigfred Evensen, Ragnar Thygesen   +2 more
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Toward Competent Writing in the Workplace

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1988
Findings from a comparison of undergraduate and on-the-job writers recommend some changes in traditional methods of teaching technical writing in college. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and “competent” writers in business and industry were given the same composing task.
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Productive Competences—Speaking, Writing, Mediating

2018
Traditionally, the content of English language teaching was conceptualised in four skills: listening and reading (receptive skills), speaking and writing (productive skills). More recently, the categorisation of language knowledge and performance has changed: Now the use of our own language, e. g.
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Metaphorical Competence in ESL Student Writing

RELC Journal, 2011
In language teaching, emphasis is usually placed on grammatical competence rather than metaphorical competence to improve a learner’s proficiency in the target language. Research has shown that figurative language poses a problem for second language learners whether it is in their ability to interpret, process, or produce metaphors.
Sujata S. Kathpalia, Heah Lee Hah Carmel
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Assessing Writing Competence in Teacher Education

Action in Teacher Education, 1994
Abstract The literacy needs of our diverse multicultural society are so compelling that writing needs to receive increased emphasis at all levels of schooling. In programs designed for the preparation of classroom teachers, writing competence as an admission or exit requirement is of importance for at least three reasons.
Izar Martinez, William Strong
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[Writing competence of deaf adults].

Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), 2002
Although all over the world deaf people face the same problems acquiring spoken and written language, detailed empirical studies are missing. The aim of this study was a grammatical analysis o faxes written by deaf adults. 236 faxes were selected from two Australian institutions. Analysis dealt with lexicon, morphology and syntax.
B, Eisenwort, R, Vollmann, U, Willinger, D, Holzinger   +3 more
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Writing for the Public/Writing for the Academy: Competing Goals with Uncertain Outcomes

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2006
Introduction I am extremely pleased to speak at this special Presidential Session of the Pacific Coast Geographers meeting hosted by Jim Allen, this year's President of the APCG. Given his stellar record of published work that has had an important public impact, beginning with We the People (1988) and continuing with The Ethnic Quilt (1997) and ...
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College Students' Writing: An Assessment of Competence

The Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Abstract The following 3 focuses were identified in this study: (a) analyzing the characteristics of students' writing that most contributed to their passing or failing the Subject A Examination, an evaluation of student writing competence required by the University of California; (b) designing instruction to help college-bound students develop their ...
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