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Araújo, C., Martins, A. P. & Osório, A. (2013). How to improve the writing of opinion essays? – the role of self-regulated strategies development . In INPACT 2013: International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends. (pp. 88-91). Madrid: World Institute for Advanced Research and Science.

C. L. Araújo et al.,  "How to improve the writing of opinion essays? – the role of self-regulated strategies development ", in INPACT 2013: Int. Psychological Applications Conf. and Trends, Madrid, World Institute for Advanced Research and Science, 2013, pp. 88-91

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TI  - How to improve the writing of opinion essays? – the role of self-regulated strategies development 
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AB  - This study aims to identify, describe and analyze the impact of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) for opinion writing. We used the mnemonics: Pick my idea, Organize my notes and Write and say more and Topic sentence, Reasons, Explain reasons and Ending (POW+TREE) strategies with 39 fourth grade students from Braga, Portugal. We adopted a quasi-experimental design, using one class as the experimental group and another class as the control group. The students from the experimental group learned the two self-regulation writing strategies in six sessions of forty-five minutes each, during two months. The quantitative data obtained were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. We observed that these strategies had a positive influence at several levels: Portuguese language, autonomy, motivation and analyzing capacities in the writing process. In the experimental group there were statistical differences, in the number of words, in the number of transition words and in the quality of the opinion essays, between the pre and posttests. It was also observed a highly effect size in the number of words (0,85) and transition words (1,22) and one condition that must be considered (0,63) in the quality of the opinion essays. The results described indicate that POW+TREE strategies help to enhance the performance of these students in writing opinion essays. Implications for practice will be discussed. Bearing in mind that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide interactive, flexible and powerful tools to develop high quality writing by students with and without specific learning disabilities, we will be proposing ways of analyzing its role in learning these strategies, in future research. All rights are reserved. Permission is granted for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring and lending is prohibited. The whole or part of this publication material cannot be reproduced, reprinted, translated, stored or transmitted, in any form or means, without the written permission of the publisher. The publisher and authors have taken care that the information and recommendations contained herein are accurate and compatible with the generally accepted standards at the time of publication. The individual essays remain the intellectual properties of the contributors.
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