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Reflections on Research on Writing and Technology for Struggling Writers
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
In this article, I discuss research on the use of technology to support the writing of students with learning disabilities. Struggling writers can benefit from a wide range of computer applications for writing. Word processing, spelling checkers, word prediction, and speech recognition offer support for transcription and revision. Word processing…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabled Students' Difficulties in Learning to Use a Word Processor: Implications for Instruction and Software Evaluation.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Shneiderman, Ben – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Based on a study of eight LD students learning to use word processing, the paper makes recommendations for evaluating word processing software and designing instruction that is sensitive to students' difficulties. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Word Processing
A Peer Editor Strategy: Guiding Learning-Disabled Students in Response and Revision.
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Stoddard, Barbra; MacArthur, Charles A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1993
Finds an approach to improving revision skills that integrated strategy instruction, peer response, and word processing to be highly effective with seventh- and eighth-grade students with learning disabilities. (SR)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching
Learning Disabled Students' Composing under Three Methods of Text Production: Handwriting, Word Processing, and Dictation.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Graham, Steve – Journal of Special Education, 1987
Eleven fifth- and sixth-grade learning-disabled students composed and revised stories using handwriting, dictation, and word processing. Dictated stories differed from other formats on product measures such as length, quality, and grammatical errors. Differences between handwritten and word-processed stories were found on the process measures of…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dictation, Handwriting, Intermediate Grades
Spelling Checkers and Students with Learning Disabilities: Performance Comparisons and Impact on Spelling.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1996
Two studies with a total of 82 students (grades 5-7) with learning disabilities found that, unaided, students corrected 9% of their errors; with spelling checkers, they corrected 37% of errors. Spelling checkers failed to identify about 30% of errors. Students usually selected the correct word from spelling checker suggestions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Error Correction, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
A Model for Writing Instruction: Integrating Word Processing and Strategy Instruction into a Process Approach to Writing.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
A process approach to writing instruction for students with learning disabilities is presented. The approach involves students sharing their work with each other, receiving frequent response to their writing, using word processing to support fluent text production and ease revision, conferencing with teachers to develop writing strategies, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Learning Disabilities, Models
Creating a Community of Writers: The Computers and Writing Instruction Project.
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Schwartz, Shirley S.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Preventing School Failure, 1990
This paper provides an overview of the Computers and Writing Instruction Project, a field-tested curriculum for teaching writing to learning-disabled students consisting of a process approach, word processing, and strategy instruction. Its scope and sequence are described and guidelines for establishing a writer's workshop in the classroom…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Word Prediction for Students with Severe Spelling Problems.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Two studies compared handwriting, word processing, and word prediction with speech-synthesis software (PR) with three intermediate-grade students with severe spelling problems. Results suggested that PR software can improve the writing of such students under certain circumstances but that constraints, such as the difficulty of using the software,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Handwriting
New Tools for Writing: Assistive Technology for Students with Writing Difficulties.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article reviews research on the use of computer technologies to help individuals with mild educational disabilities write more effectively, including word processing and the use of word processing in teaching revision and facilitating collaboration, transcription tools, and the limited research on hypermedia or multimedia to support writing.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Evaluation of a Writing Instruction Model That Integrated a Process Approach, Strategy Instruction, and Word Processing.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1995
A model of writing instruction integrating word processing, strategy instruction, and a process approach, within a social context for writing as a meaningful task, was tested with 113 elementary students with learning disabilities. Students in experimental classes made greater gains in quality of their narrative and informative writing than did…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
From Illegible to Understandable: How Word Prediction and Speech Synthesis Can Help.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Uses a case study of a third-grade student with a severe learning disability and an attention deficit disorder to illustrate use of word prediction and speech synthesis software to help students with such tasks as communicating via dialog journals. Guidelines (such as using a relatively small word list) and evidence of the method's effectiveness…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Case Studies, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
The Impact of Computers on the Writing Process.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The paper discusses: features of word processors and their impact on the writing process and the social context for writing; research on word processors in schools and the potential instructional role of extensions to word processors, such as spelling and style checkers, synthesized speech output, computer networks, and interactive prompting…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Using Technology to Enhance the Writing Processes of Students with Learning Disabilities.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
This article reviews ways that computers can support writing by students with learning disabilities. It discusses research on word processing, software for transcription and sentence generation, spelling checkers, speech synthesizers, word prediction programs, grammar and style checkers, prompting programs, outlining and semantic mapping software,…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education