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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1016| Publication type: | Working paper – expertise – study |
| Title: | The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results |
| Authors: | Chitez, Madalina Kruse, Otto Castelló, Montserrat |
| DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-1016 |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Series: | Working Papers in Applied Linguistics |
| Series volume: | 9 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Winterthur |
| ISBN: | 978-3-905745-79-5 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Akademisches Schreiben; Umfrage; Kontrastive Rhetorik; Schreibforschung; Academic Writing; Survey; Contrastive Rhetoric; Writing Research |
| Subject (DDC): | 400: Language, linguistics |
| Abstract: | The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT), both the student and faculty versions, reflects the need to systematically gather data on student writing in various institutional and disciplinary contexts. The final version of the survey (status January 2015) includes questions on: personal and demographic data, general questions on writing in the study programme, writing process and feedback, text genres and writing practices, self-evaluation (students) and appreciation (faculty) of the writing skills, conceptions of “good writing”, study competences and writing support. EUWRIT is the result of a long testing and implementation process, which started in 2006. The range of projects in which the survey has been im-plemented is broad and includes assessment of writing skills in study programmes (Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich; Economics, Journalism and Health at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences), investigations of different stages of student development (Translation Studies at Zurich University of Ap-plied Sciences); comparisons of writing cultures (universities of teacher education in the French, German, and Italian parts of Switzerland); assessments of writing cultures in certain disciplines at different universities (Spain); studies of the writing cultures of a single university (University of Constance, Germany); and comparisons of the genres in different Eastern Europe countries (Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine). The report gives a synthesis of the construction principles of the EUWRIT questionnaire and presents some of the results from the aforementioned studies. Das European Writing Survey (EUWRIT), in seinen beiden Versionen für Studierende und Lehrende, ist aus der Notwendigkeit zu einer systematischen Sammlung von Daten über studentisches Schreiben in verschiedenen institutionellen und disziplinären Kontexten entstanden. Die letzte Version (Stand Januar 2015) enthält Fragen zu persönlichen und demographischen Variablen, Schreibpraktiken im Studum, Schreibprozess und Feedback, Textgenres, Selbsteinschätzungen (Studierende) und Bedeutsamkeit (Lehrende) studentischer Schreibkompetenz, Vorstellungen von «gutem Schreiben», Selbsteinschätzung (Studierende) von und Bedeutung (Lehrende) allgemeiner Studienkompetenzen, und Bedarf an Unterstützung für das Schreiben. EUWRIT ist Resultat eines langen Test- und Implementierungsprozesses, der im Jahr 2006 begann. Die Spannweite der Projekte, in denen EURWRIT implementiert wurde, ist breit und schliesst ein: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung von Schreibkompetenzen in Studiengängen (Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, ZHAW Winterthur), Vergleich von Studiengängen an einer Hochschule (ZHAW, Studiengänge Management and Law, Journalismus und Gesundheitswissenschaften); Vergleich von Schreibkulturen in unterschiedlichen Sprachregionen (Schreibkulturen an Pädagogischen Hochschulen der französischen, deutschen und italienischen Schweiz); Vergleiche von Schreibkulturen an bestimmten Fakultäten in mehreren Universitäten des Landes (Spanien), Totalerhebungen an einzelnen Hochschulen (Universität Konstanz), und Vergleich von Genrekonzeptionen in geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten osteuropäische Länder (Mazedonien, Rumänien, Ukraine). Der Bericht gibt eine Synthese der Konstruktionsprinzipien des Fragebogens und präsentiert einige zentrale Ergebnisse aus den angesprochenen Studien. The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT), both the student and faculty versions, reflects the need to systematically gather data on student writing in various institutional and disciplinary contexts. The final version of the survey (status January 2015) includes questions on: personal and demographic data, general questions on writing in the study programme, writing process and feedback, text genres and writing practices, self-evaluation (students) and appreciation (faculty) of the writing skills, conceptions of “good writing”, study competences and writing support. EUWRIT is the result of a long testing and implementation process, which started in 2006. The range of projects in which the survey has been implemented is broad and includes assessment of writing skills in study programmes (Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich; Economics, Journalism and Health at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences), investigations of different stages of student development (Translation Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences); comparisons of writing cultures (universities of teacher education in the French, German, and Italian parts of Switzerland); assessments of writing cultures in certain disciplines at different universities (Spain); studies of the writing cultures of a single university (University of Constance, Germany); and comparisons of the genres in different Eastern Europe countries (Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine). The report gives a synthesis of the construction principles of the EUWRIT questionnaire and presents some of the results from the aforementioned studies. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/1016 |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Appears in collections: | Working Papers in Applied Linguistics |
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Chitez, M., Kruse, O., & Castelló, M. (2015). The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1016
Chitez, M., Kruse, O. and Castelló, M. (2015) The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1016.
M. Chitez, O. Kruse, and M. Castelló, “The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results,” ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur, 2015. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1016.
CHITEZ, Madalina, Otto KRUSE und Montserrat CASTELLÓ, 2015. The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Chitez, Madalina, Otto Kruse, and Montserrat Castelló. 2015. “The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results.” Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1016.
Chitez, Madalina, et al. The European Writing Survey (EUWRIT): Background, Structure, Implementation, and Some Results. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, 2015, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1016.
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