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Cobine, Gary R. – 1996
This digest discusses expressive writing and the expressive mode, which is seen as a recurring stage in a writer's process of writing. The digest suggests that by structuring expressive writing activities and correlating them with particular stages of the writing process, a teacher can draw the natural linguistic activity out of a student. The…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Free Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
The Effectiveness of Dialogue Journal Writing in Improving the Writing Skills of Young Deaf Writers.

Kluwin, Thomas N.; Kelly, Arlene Blumenthal – American Annals of the Deaf, 1991
Evaluation of the dialogue journals kept by 153 deaf students in pairs of deaf and hearing students (grades 4-12) in 10 public school districts found an improvement in the quality of the writing of the deaf students over time and changes in content and syntactic complexity. (DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education