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Peer reviewedHaswell, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
A college freshman level sentence-combining treatment consisting of one paragraph rewriting exercise for 12 consecutive weeks resulted in significant gains in average words per clause and words per T-unit. (HOD)
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Sentence Combining, Writing Evaluation
Peer reviewedGrobe, Gary – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
A 1979 analysis of student expository writing showed that holistic quality scores awarded by teacher-raters were influenced to a greater extent by essay length and freedom from spelling errors. A replication of that investigation using a sample of students' narrative writing produced the same findings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Holistic Evaluation, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedHudson, Sally A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Describes children's views of the contexts surrounding their writing and examines five contextual factors: ownership, setting, audience, purpose, and genre.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audiences, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDolan, Lawrence; Caroselli, Marlene – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Reports on the development of a home intervention strategy at the secondary school level to improve students' writing abilities. (HOD)
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHillocks, George, Jr. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Three studies suggest that students involved in observational activities increase the level of specificity in their writing after only 10 to 15 days of instruction and are judged to be more creative. (DD)
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Peer reviewedPurves, A. C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedSpiegel, Dixie Lee; Fitzgerald, Jill – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Examines the relationship between cohesion and coherence in children's writing. Finds evidence of a relationship between cohesion and coherence, and reports that this relationship (1) varies according to text content; (2) does not vary according to quality of writing; and (3) does not vary according to the students' grade level. (KEH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHerrington, Anne J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
An investigation into the context for writing in two college chemical engineering classes revealed that the two courses represented distinct communities where different issues were addressed, different lines of reasoning used, different writer and audience roles assumed, and different social purposes served by writing. Copies of assignments are…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Content Area Writing
Peer reviewedMarshall, James D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Examines effects of three writing tasks on students' writing, writing processes, and later understanding of short stories. Results indicate that personal analytic and formal analytic writing were associated with significantly higher posttest scores on literature than restricted writing in the form of short answer questions. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
