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In this chapter, I will describe a step-by-step approach on how to design a writing intervention. Due to a lack of space in research journals, critical design choices and approaches underlying writing interventions are often only vaguely described. More particularly, such descriptions include an overview of the different sessions or lessons and a summarization of the content and the instructional approach. Although these descriptions are informative and the reader has an overall idea of the structure and content of the writing program, replicating the intervention or implementing the intervention into everyday practice is, however, not at all evident without knowing the exact instructional activities and without access to the specific intervention materials. Therefore, researchers in the field have called for more structured and analytic descriptions of writing interventions in light of fostering theory building, replication, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based writing practices. Clear descriptions of the design of interventions in research publications provide guidance for writing researchers to further theorize conceptual writing models, to replicate evidence-based writing practices, and to bring writing interventions to scale. Eventually, such detailed descriptions can also inform educational writing practitioners to effectively implement these writing practices into everyday practice. The twofold aim of this chapter is, therefore, to provide recommendations and guidelines on how to develop a particular instructional writing intervention on the one hand and how to systematically report this intervention in research articles on the other hand.
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Studies in Writing, Volume: 40
This book takes a fresh look at the challenge of setting up educational writing intervention studies in authentic class contexts. In four sections, the book offers innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions for research purposes. Hot topics in the field such as professional development for scaling up writing interventions, building research practice partnerships, implementation variation and fidelity, and response to intervention are addressed. To illustrate the proposed approaches for writing promotion, the book showcases a wide variety of writing interventions from around the world, ranging from single-participant designs to large-scale intervention studies in writing.
Series:
Studies in Writing, Volume: 40
This book takes a fresh look at the challenge of setting up educational writing intervention studies in authentic class contexts. In four sections, the book offers innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions for research purposes. Hot topics in the field such as professional development for scaling up writing interventions, building research practice partnerships, implementation variation and fidelity, and response to intervention are addressed. To illustrate the proposed approaches for writing promotion, the book showcases a wide variety of writing interventions from around the world, ranging from single-participant designs to large-scale intervention studies in writing.
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To date, a variety of research method books across different research fields were published. Given the specificity of each research field, the importance of having methodology guidelines aligned with the specificity of each field becomes increasingly important. In the field of writing research, a research method book outlining methodological guidelines for conducting high-quality intervention research in writing was lacking. With this new volume we aim to move the field of writing research further along by discussing methodological issues researchers may face when conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating writing interventions in various educational contexts. Across four sections, we provide innovative theoretical and practical solutions to these methodological issues, which are illustrated by recent and inspiring writing interventions. This volume is not only beneficial to writing researchers, but also to researchers in other educational fields, as it addresses crucial methodological issues and approaches and consequently support researchers in setting up a methodologically sound research plan for conducting high-quality writing intervention research.