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Allen, Laura; Crossley, Scott; Kyle, Kris; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
The current study examined relationships between expert human judgments of text quality and grammar and mechanical errors in student writing. A corpus of essays (N = 100) written by high school students in the W-Pal system was collected, coded for grammar and mechanical errors, and scored by expert human raters. Results revealed weak relations…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Figueredo, Lauren; Varnhagen, Connie K. – Reading Psychology, 2005
We investigated expectations regarding a writer's responsibility to proofread text for spelling errors when using a word processor. Undergraduate students read an essay and completed a questionnaire regarding their perceptions of the author and the quality of the essay. They then manipulated type of spelling error (no error, homophone error,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spelling, Word Processing, Error Patterns