Dear Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to announce the next IIS Colloquium, Friday the 8th at 4pm in FIT 405.

Steve Graham from Vanderbilt will be giving a talk entitled "The role of self-regulation, knowledge, motivation, and skills in writing development: Selected studies examining theses relationships." An abstract of the talk is below.

This one hour talk will be held in 405 FIT. We hope to foster
discussion/debate that will continue after the talk or at dinner as
appropriate!

Looking forward,

Andrew

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Andrew Olney, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Institute for Intelligent Systems
The University of Memphis
365 Innovation Drive
Memphis, TN 38152

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The role of self-regulation, knowledge, motivation, and skills in writing development: Selected studies examining theses relationships

Abstract:

Steve Graham's presentation will examine the evidence for the role of four factors in writing development: strategic prowess, motivation, knowledge, and basic writing skills. In addition to summarizing evidence broadly on each of these factors, he will present specific studies from his own research program that have addressed the role of each of these factors in writing development.