Morag Torrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morag Torrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morag |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrance |
| SIGNATURE | TORRANCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5305-4315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Lifeline or Sinking Ship in Ocean Conservation? A Deep Dive into Value Creation of “Blue Bonds”
The 2018 issuance of Seychelles’ Debt for Nature blue bond raised new hopes for capital market solutions for conservation. Although there is growing excitement over the potential of blue bonds in channeling much needed investment for ocean conservation, as yet, blue bond uptake remains limited, and existing issuances have been criticized for their vague and unambitious environmental impact. This article analyzes the emergence of blue bonds as a n…
Semantic contrast ahead
Whether or not pre-planning extends beyond the initial noun in a noun phrase depends, in part, on the phrase’s dependency structure. Dependency structure disambiguates, in many contexts, the noun phrase’s reference. In the present experiment ( N = 64), we demonstrate that advance planning is affected by the extent to which a dependency supports semantic disambiguation. Participants produced noun phrases in response to picture arrays. Syntax and l…
Writing by hand or digitally in first grade
In a natural experiment we compared development of writing composition skill in five Norwegian first-grade classes in which children (N = 90) learned to compose text by handwriting on paper and in five classes in which children (N = 91) learned by typing on a digital tablet using software that additionally provided read-back via text-to-speech synthesis. Children completed narrative composition probe tasks at five timepoints over eight months, wr…
Efectos de una instrucción estratégica-autorregulada en el proceso de comprensión y autoeficacia lectora del alumnado de educación primaria
La autorregulación es un importante factor para garantizar una adecuada comprensión lectora. Este estudio analiza los efectos de un programa de instrucción estratégica-autorregulada frente a un grupo control en el rendimiento en comprensión lectora, el tiempo dedicado a aplicar estrategias durante el proceso de comprensión lectora y la autoeficacia lectora. El programa se desarrolla bajo dos condiciones (condición 1 y condición 2) en las que los …
The process-disruption hypothesis
This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to the substance (content and structure) of the resulting text. 101 children (mean age 11 years 10 months), writing in a relatively shallow orthography (Norwegian), composed argumentative essays using a simple text editor that provided accurate timing for each keystroke. Production fluency was assessed…
Child‐level factors affecting rate of learning to write in first grade
BACKGROUND: Written composition requires handwriting, spelling, and text planning skills, all largely learned through school instruction. Students' rate of learning to compose text in their first months at school will depend, in part, on their literacy-related abilities at school start. These effects have not previously been explored. AIM: We aimed to establish the effects of various literacy-related abilities on the learning trajectory of first-…
El Modelo De Respuesta a La Intervención en Escritura
La evidencia cientfica sita el modelo de Respuesta a la Intervencin como el enfoque clave para la prevencin y diagnstico de las Dificultades de Aprendizaje Especficas en Escritura. La formacin del psiclogo educativo en torno a la instruccin en competencia escrita y la monitorizacin del progreso del alumnado resulta fundamental para desarrollar su labor de orientacin al profesorado en la aplicacin eficiente de dicho modelo. En este estudio se pres…
Effects of teaching planning strategies to first-grade writers
BackgroundTraditionally writing instruction at the start of school has focused on developing students' ability to spell and handwrite. Teaching children explicit self-regulatory strategies for developing content and structure for their text has proved effective for students in later grades of primary (elementary) education.AimsThe present study aims to determine whether first-grade students benefit from learning higher-level self-regulating strat…
Do sixth-grade writers need process strategies
BACKGROUND: Strategy-focused writing instruction trains students both to set explicit product goals and to adopt specific procedural strategies, particularly for planning text. A number of studies have demonstrated that strategy-focused writing instruction is effective in developing writing performance. AIM: This study aimed to determine whether teaching process strategies provides additional benefit over teaching students to set product goals. S…
Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks
Journal Article Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks Get access Morag Torrance Morag Torrance * *School of Geography, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 805–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn048 Publi…
Forging Glocal Governance? Urban Infrastructures as Networked Financial Products
Urban infrastructure provisions are increasingly shifting from public good to private property, with cities and regions valued merely on a quarter-to-quarter basis. The argument in this article is threefold. The urban infrastructure landscape is undergoing financialization. Additionally, building on Graham and Marvin who describe how infrastructure networks are being unbundled locally, these infrastructures are simultaneously being interlinked in…
Snakes and Ladders
This paper explores the ways in which male offenders in professional‐status occupations prior to conviction construct and justify money‐related crime. We report a detailed analysis, based in grounded theory and critical social‐psychological discourse analysis, of a loosely‐structured group interview with four offenders. The men constructed justifications for their offenses in terms of “breadwinning” for their immediate family and economic respons…
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Training in thesis writing
Three different two-day thesis writing courses were designed and evaluated. Forty-one graduate research students completed a product-centred course which taught grammatical and stylistic rules for good research writing. Thirty students completed a cognitive strategies course which introduced heuristics for generating and organising thesis content. Thirty-three students completed a generative writing and shared revision course which entailed the p…
The writing experiences of social science research students
A questionnaire was sent to 228 full-time, United Kingdom domiciled, social science research (PhD and MPhil) students studying at 10 different British universities. Questions were asked concerning: (1) the nature and quantity of writing produced; (2) the writing strategies adopted; (3) the students' experiences and difficulties with academic writing; and (4) the extent of writing-related support and instruction received by the students. From 110 …
Strategies for Answering Examination Essay Questions
Two studies were performed to examine student beliefs about the importance of plan writing in examinations and the relationship between plan writing and answer quality. In the first study 56 first year undergraduate students completed a questionnaire concerning exam technique. Of these, 86 per cent believed that the best way to start examination essay questions was by writing a plan. In the second study examination answers and associated rough no…
Forging Glocal Governance? Urban Infrastructures as Networked Financial Products
Urban infrastructure provisions are increasingly shifting from public good to private property, with cities and regions valued merely on a quarter-to-quarter basis. The argument in this article is threefold. The urban infrastructure landscape is undergoing financialization. Additionally, building on Graham and Marvin who describe how infrastructure networks are being unbundled locally, these infrastructures are simultaneously being interlinked in…
Snakes and Ladders
This paper explores the ways in which male offenders in professional‐status occupations prior to conviction construct and justify money‐related crime. We report a detailed analysis, based in grounded theory and critical social‐psychological discourse analysis, of a loosely‐structured group interview with four offenders. The men constructed justifications for their offenses in terms of “breadwinning” for their immediate family and economic respons…
Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks
Journal Article Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks Get access Morag Torrance Morag Torrance * *School of Geography, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 805–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn048 Publi…
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Training in thesis writing
Three different two-day thesis writing courses were designed and evaluated. Forty-one graduate research students completed a product-centred course which taught grammatical and stylistic rules for good research writing. Thirty students completed a cognitive strategies course which introduced heuristics for generating and organising thesis content. Thirty-three students completed a generative writing and shared revision course which entailed the p…
The writing experiences of social science research students
A questionnaire was sent to 228 full-time, United Kingdom domiciled, social science research (PhD and MPhil) students studying at 10 different British universities. Questions were asked concerning: (1) the nature and quantity of writing produced; (2) the writing strategies adopted; (3) the students' experiences and difficulties with academic writing; and (4) the extent of writing-related support and instruction received by the students. From 110 …
Effects of teaching planning strategies to first-grade writers
BackgroundTraditionally writing instruction at the start of school has focused on developing students' ability to spell and handwrite. Teaching children explicit self-regulatory strategies for developing content and structure for their text has proved effective for students in later grades of primary (elementary) education.AimsThe present study aims to determine whether first-grade students benefit from learning higher-level self-regulating strat…
Do sixth-grade writers need process strategies
BACKGROUND: Strategy-focused writing instruction trains students both to set explicit product goals and to adopt specific procedural strategies, particularly for planning text. A number of studies have demonstrated that strategy-focused writing instruction is effective in developing writing performance. AIM: This study aimed to determine whether teaching process strategies provides additional benefit over teaching students to set product goals. S…
Strategies for Answering Examination Essay Questions
Two studies were performed to examine student beliefs about the importance of plan writing in examinations and the relationship between plan writing and answer quality. In the first study 56 first year undergraduate students completed a questionnaire concerning exam technique. Of these, 86 per cent believed that the best way to start examination essay questions was by writing a plan. In the second study examination answers and associated rough no…
Strategies for Answering Examination Essay Questions
Two studies were performed to examine student beliefs about the importance of plan writing in examinations and the relationship between plan writing and answer quality. In the first study 56 first year undergraduate students completed a questionnaire concerning exam technique. Of these, 86 per cent believed that the best way to start examination essay questions was by writing a plan. In the second study examination answers and associated rough no…
The writing experiences of social science research students
A questionnaire was sent to 228 full-time, United Kingdom domiciled, social science research (PhD and MPhil) students studying at 10 different British universities. Questions were asked concerning: (1) the nature and quantity of writing produced; (2) the writing strategies adopted; (3) the students' experiences and difficulties with academic writing; and (4) the extent of writing-related support and instruction received by the students. From 110 …
Training in thesis writing
Three different two-day thesis writing courses were designed and evaluated. Forty-one graduate research students completed a product-centred course which taught grammatical and stylistic rules for good research writing. Thirty students completed a cognitive strategies course which introduced heuristics for generating and organising thesis content. Thirty-three students completed a generative writing and shared revision course which entailed the p…
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Snakes and Ladders
This paper explores the ways in which male offenders in professional‐status occupations prior to conviction construct and justify money‐related crime. We report a detailed analysis, based in grounded theory and critical social‐psychological discourse analysis, of a loosely‐structured group interview with four offenders. The men constructed justifications for their offenses in terms of “breadwinning” for their immediate family and economic respons…
Forging Glocal Governance? Urban Infrastructures as Networked Financial Products
Urban infrastructure provisions are increasingly shifting from public good to private property, with cities and regions valued merely on a quarter-to-quarter basis. The argument in this article is threefold. The urban infrastructure landscape is undergoing financialization. Additionally, building on Graham and Marvin who describe how infrastructure networks are being unbundled locally, these infrastructures are simultaneously being interlinked in…
Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks
Journal Article Reconceptualizing urban governance through a new paradigm for urban infrastructure networks Get access Morag Torrance Morag Torrance * *School of Geography, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 805–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn048 Publi…
Do sixth-grade writers need process strategies
BACKGROUND: Strategy-focused writing instruction trains students both to set explicit product goals and to adopt specific procedural strategies, particularly for planning text. A number of studies have demonstrated that strategy-focused writing instruction is effective in developing writing performance. AIM: This study aimed to determine whether teaching process strategies provides additional benefit over teaching students to set product goals. S…
Effects of teaching planning strategies to first-grade writers
BackgroundTraditionally writing instruction at the start of school has focused on developing students' ability to spell and handwrite. Teaching children explicit self-regulatory strategies for developing content and structure for their text has proved effective for students in later grades of primary (elementary) education.AimsThe present study aims to determine whether first-grade students benefit from learning higher-level self-regulating strat…
El Modelo De Respuesta a La Intervención en Escritura
La evidencia cientfica sita el modelo de Respuesta a la Intervencin como el enfoque clave para la prevencin y diagnstico de las Dificultades de Aprendizaje Especficas en Escritura. La formacin del psiclogo educativo en torno a la instruccin en competencia escrita y la monitorizacin del progreso del alumnado resulta fundamental para desarrollar su labor de orientacin al profesorado en la aplicacin eficiente de dicho modelo. En este estudio se pres…
Child‐level factors affecting rate of learning to write in first grade
BACKGROUND: Written composition requires handwriting, spelling, and text planning skills, all largely learned through school instruction. Students' rate of learning to compose text in their first months at school will depend, in part, on their literacy-related abilities at school start. These effects have not previously been explored. AIM: We aimed to establish the effects of various literacy-related abilities on the learning trajectory of first-…
The process-disruption hypothesis
This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to the substance (content and structure) of the resulting text. 101 children (mean age 11 years 10 months), writing in a relatively shallow orthography (Norwegian), composed argumentative essays using a simple text editor that provided accurate timing for each keystroke. Production fluency was assessed…
Writing by hand or digitally in first grade
In a natural experiment we compared development of writing composition skill in five Norwegian first-grade classes in which children (N = 90) learned to compose text by handwriting on paper and in five classes in which children (N = 91) learned by typing on a digital tablet using software that additionally provided read-back via text-to-speech synthesis. Children completed narrative composition probe tasks at five timepoints over eight months, wr…
Efectos de una instrucción estratégica-autorregulada en el proceso de comprensión y autoeficacia lectora del alumnado de educación primaria
La autorregulación es un importante factor para garantizar una adecuada comprensión lectora. Este estudio analiza los efectos de un programa de instrucción estratégica-autorregulada frente a un grupo control en el rendimiento en comprensión lectora, el tiempo dedicado a aplicar estrategias durante el proceso de comprensión lectora y la autoeficacia lectora. El programa se desarrolla bajo dos condiciones (condición 1 y condición 2) en las que los …
Semantic contrast ahead
Whether or not pre-planning extends beyond the initial noun in a noun phrase depends, in part, on the phrase’s dependency structure. Dependency structure disambiguates, in many contexts, the noun phrase’s reference. In the present experiment ( N = 64), we demonstrate that advance planning is affected by the extent to which a dependency supports semantic disambiguation. Participants produced noun phrases in response to picture arrays. Syntax and l…
A Lifeline or Sinking Ship in Ocean Conservation? A Deep Dive into Value Creation of “Blue Bonds”
The 2018 issuance of Seychelles’ Debt for Nature blue bond raised new hopes for capital market solutions for conservation. Although there is growing excitement over the potential of blue bonds in channeling much needed investment for ocean conservation, as yet, blue bond uptake remains limited, and existing issuances have been criticized for their vague and unambitious environmental impact. This article analyzes the emergence of blue bonds as a n…
Psychology (11 works) · Writing and Handwriting Education (10 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Spelling (4 works)