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Freedman, Aviva; Pringle, Ian – 1979
Prepared as part of a project designed to provide an objectively measured indication of the quality of student writing in one school district, this paper presents analyses of the syntactic complexity of the argumentative and narrative writing of more than 500 seventh and eighth grade students and of the mechanical errors found in that writing.…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Expository Writing, Grade 7, Grade 8
Freedman, Aviva; Pringle, Ian – 1980
Prepared as part of a project designed to provide an objectively measured indication of the quality of student writing in one school district, this paper examines argumentative and narrative essays written by students at the fifth, eighth, and twelfth grade levels. The first section of the paper discusses the primary analysis of student writing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 12