Articles on Writing for ESL students

Paul Sze, 2008 Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis The Internet TESL Journal	'...I wanted to find out how applicable wikis are with ESL learners, so I planned and implemented a pilot writing project using wikis with a Secondary One (S.1) class at a secondary school in Hong Kong...'
Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, 2007 Students writing emails to faculty: an examination of e-politeness among native and non-native speakers of English Language Learning & Technology, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 59-81	'This study combines interlanguage pragmatics and speech act research with computermediated communication and examines how native and non-native speakers of English formulate low- and high-imposition requests to faculty.'
Tun-Whei Isabel Chuo, 2007 The Effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction Program on EFL Learners' Writing Performance, Writing Apprehension, and Perception TESL-EJ, December 2007, Volume 11, 3	This study investigated the effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction (WQWI) program on Taiwanese EFL learners' writing performance, writing apprehension, and perception of web-resource integrated language learning.
Congjun Mu and Suzanne Carrington, 2007 An Investigation of Three Chinese Students' English Writing Strategies TESL-EJ, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 1	The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing processes of second language (L2) writers, specifically examining the writing strategies of three Chinese post-graduate students in an Australian higher education institution.
Mark Warschauer and Paige Ware, 2006 Automated writing evaluation: defining the classroom research agenda Language Teaching Research 10,2 (2006); pp. 1–24	In this article, we analyse recent developments in automated writing evaluation, explain the bases on which AWE systems operate, synthesize research with these systems, and propose a multifaceted process/product research programme on the instructional use of AWE. We explore this emerging area of inquiry by proposing a range of potential questions, methodologies and analytical tools that can define such a research agenda.
Chi-Fen Emily Chen, 2006 The development of email literacy: from writing to peers to writing to authority figures Language Learning & Technology Vol.10, No.2, May 2006, pp. 35-55	Though e-mail has become a common interpersonal communication medium, it does not mean that this medium is used without difficulty.
Clenton, J. - MA Applied Linguistics, University of Sussex Academic Writing - Towards an integrated approach	a discussion of process and product, an example of a good MA essay
Krajka J. 2000 Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction	Internet TESL Journal Vol V1 No 11
Bronson, M. C. 2001 Genre is a Verb: :Research on Academic Writing in Critical Perspective	a discussion on genre theory and EAP
Intro to Special Issue on Literacies & Technologies	Language Learning & Technology Vol. 4, No. 2, September 2000, p. 2-4
Sengupta, S. 2001 Exchanging ideas with peers in network-based classrooms: an aid or a pain?	Language Learning & Technology Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 103-134

Paul Sze, 2008

Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis

The Internet TESL Journal

'...I wanted to find out how applicable wikis are with ESL learners, so I planned and implemented a pilot writing project using wikis with a Secondary One (S.1) class at a secondary school in Hong Kong...'

Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, 2007

Students writing emails to faculty: an examination of e-politeness among native and non-native speakers of English

Language Learning & Technology, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 59-81

'This study combines interlanguage pragmatics and speech act research with computermediated communication and examines how native and non-native speakers of English formulate low- and high-imposition requests to faculty.'

Tun-Whei Isabel Chuo, 2007

The Effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction Program on EFL Learners' Writing Performance, Writing Apprehension, and Perception

TESL-EJ, December 2007, Volume 11, 3

This study investigated the effects of the WebQuest Writing Instruction (WQWI) program on Taiwanese EFL learners' writing performance, writing apprehension, and perception of web-resource integrated language learning.

Congjun Mu and Suzanne Carrington, 2007

An Investigation of Three Chinese Students' English Writing Strategies

TESL-EJ, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 1

The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing processes of second language (L2) writers, specifically examining the writing strategies of three Chinese post-graduate students in an Australian higher education institution.

Mark Warschauer and Paige Ware, 2006

Automated writing evaluation: defining the classroom research agenda

Language Teaching Research 10,2 (2006); pp. 1–24

In this article, we analyse recent developments in automated writing evaluation, explain the bases on which AWE systems operate, synthesize research with these systems, and propose a multifaceted process/product research programme on the instructional use of AWE. We explore this emerging area of inquiry by proposing a range of potential questions, methodologies and analytical tools that can define such a research agenda.

Chi-Fen Emily Chen, 2006

The development of email literacy: from writing to peers to writing to authority figures

Language Learning & Technology
Vol.10, No.2, May 2006, pp. 35-55