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Yang, Chengsong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – English Language Education, 2023
This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Tight, Malcolm, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods, and methodologies are being applied. As an expanding multidisciplinary area…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
Sirc, Geoffrey; Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1988
Discussion of the use of computers as research tools to analyze the writing process focuses on a microcomputer-based software program, Recording WordStar. Studies using the software are described, including comparisons of traditional writing methods with word processing methods and utilization of the software's ability to play back a composition…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Intermode Differences
Schumacher, Gary M.; And Others – 1982
A study investigated the cognitive and grammatical activities carried out during writing by 22 incoming freshmen and 20 upperclass college students. It was hypothesized that the upperclassmen's compositions would be judged better in quality than those of the freshmen, and that the upperclassmen would show fewer pauses in which they were…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Clark, Irene Lurkis – 1983
Research studies have pointed to a similarity between reading and listening that may imply that listening to writing is likely to be a useful means of evaluating it. Therefore a study was designed to determine the extent to which holistic scores assigned to student essays by readers correlate with holistic scores assigned to the same essays by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Listening
Crowhurst, Marion – 1983
A study examined the revisions made in expressive and persuasive compositions by 14 good and 14 average writers in grades 5, 7, and 11 to determine if grade- or ability-related differences occurred in the quality and kinds of revisions made and if revisions differed for the two types of compositions. Students wrote compositions one day and revised…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
McAndrew, Donald A. – 1981
To determine what effect the perceived audience and purpose of a written piece has on its quality, 30 high ability and 30 low ability writers were selected on the basis of a college placement examination and instructed to write two essays. Half of the students were given specific rhetorical contexts (audience and purpose) as well as topics.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Audience Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Bartlett, Elsa J.; Wilson, Jay C. – 1982
A research project investigated the development of narrative rhetoric in students in grades 3 through 8 in New York City public schools. Two types of tasks were used, the first requiring students to write a story about the events depicted in a drawing, the second asking them to correct rhetorical problems in prepared narratives. A series of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
Fox, Barry – 1983
Microresearch of the type performed by W. Loban and K. Hunt was used to describe two functions of macroresearch methodology--reporting and classifying--of the type conducted by J. Britton. This was done by contrasting the use of nine linguistic features of writing produced by four groups of students in each of the functions. The features were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language)
Flynn, Elizabeth A. – 1983
An exploratory study examined gender differences in writing in the essays of five male and five female freshman composition students. The findings suggest parallels between the writing and speaking behaviors of men and women students and between student writing and the work of male and female professional writers. The male students made few…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Conditioning, Content Analysis

De Bernardi, Bianca; Levorato, M. Chiara – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents a study of the acquisition and development of information coordination ability. Examines students' composition of texts comparing two cultural groups after reading either one text describing both or a separate text on each. Concludes that older students used more complex information integration levels, whereas all subjects performed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis

Preteur, Yves; Louvet-Schmauss, Eva – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Presents a continuation of previous research on a general development process consisting of successive levels in conceptualization. Explores how young children conceptualize the writing system. Considers both social background and preschool system of education. Concludes that teaching activities used in French nursery schools are less effective…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies