Zerbe, E., & Berdanier, C. G., & Buswell, N. T., & Melo, J. M. M. (2019, June), Validating a Short Form Writing Attitudes Survey for Engineering Writers  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33529

\bibitem{asee_peer_33529}
  Zerbe, E., \& Berdanier, C. G., \& Buswell, N. T., \& Melo, J. M. M. (2019, June), \emph{Validating a Short Form Writing Attitudes Survey for Engineering Writers}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--33529

Ellen Zerbe, Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Natascha Trellinger Buswell, and Joana M. M. Melo.  "Validating a Short Form Writing Attitudes Survey for Engineering Writers".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33529 Internet.  17 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_33529}
  Ellen Zerbe, Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Natascha Trellinger Buswell, and Joana M. M. Melo.
  "Validating a Short Form Writing Attitudes Survey for Engineering Writers".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33529 Internet.  17 Mar, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineering writing is a competency that is often-cited as a crucial skill for engineers to develop but is often under-emphasized in undergraduate or graduate curriculum. The affective dimension of writing (feelings, emotions, writer’s block, and writing apprehension) can further complicate the process of writing for students who write infrequently.  For graduate students, in particular, attitudes about writing have implications on career trajectory, persistence, and wellbeing in graduate school. Our prior research employs a series of previously-developed scales assessing various dimensions of writing attitudes and behaviors as a way to understand multiple dimensions of a student’s affective relationship with writing; however, the survey is long (~30 minutes) and can be time-consuming for researchers to analyze. Each of the scales within the survey studies an aspect of the writer’s attitudes.  The objective of this research paper is to present the development and validation of a short-form survey that can be used to easily assess primary attitudes that engineering students hold as they approach academic writing.  This research employs confirmatory factor analysis to develop a short form survey that gives accurate results, such that students can take a web-hosted writing attitudes survey and immediately be given their “writing attitude profile” with writing strategies tailored to their specific writing profile. 
AU  - Ellen Zerbe
AU  - Catherine G.P. Berdanier
AU  - Natascha Trellinger Buswell
AU  - Joana M. M. Melo
CY  - Tampa, Florida
DA  - 2019/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Validating a Short Form Writing Attitudes Survey for Engineering Writers
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