Miss Sophie Marie Hall
Postgraduate researcher
Sophie is a PhD student at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. She also co-organises the Southampton ReproducibiliTea journal club, an open science initiative.
Sophie is a PhD student at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. She also co-organises the Southampton ReproducibiliTea journal club, an open science initiative.
Sophie’s PhD project focuses on how writing beliefs and drafting strategies affect writing processes, text quality and knowledge development in UK higher education students with and without dyslexia. Using a combination of questionnaire and quasi-experimental procedures involving keystroke-logging, she aims to:
She hopes that the findings from her study will give more insight into how dyslexia is implicated in the writing process, and whether the writer’s views about writing, along with the type of drafting strategies they use, affect their writing outcomes – particularly in terms of academic writing. These findings could help to inform academic writing instruction for higher education students in the future.