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Griswold, Olga – CATESOL Journal, 2017
This study analyzed the grammatical control of verbs exercised by 145 monolingual English and Generation 1.5 bilingual developmental writers in narrative essays using quantitative and qualitative methods. Generation 1.5 students made more errors than their monolingual peers in each category investigated, albeit in only 2 categories was the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Verbs, Grammar
Bird, Barbara – Journal of Basic Writing, 2013
This article presents the results of three comparative analyses on forty-seven student papers in order to examine the effectiveness of a basic writing course in developing students' academic writer identity. The course curriculum, grounded in social identity theory, focuses on the core writing concepts and dispositions that promote writer…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Self Concept, Comparative Analysis
Fernandes, Antonio S. C. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
The paper describes a case study in which the main objective is to understand how engineering students can improve their writing skills, regarding spelling and syntax, when taught specifically on these issues. The methodology Writing To Learn is applied in two courses and, making use of the written texts, the students' writing skills are assessed…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Syntax, Writing Skills, Case Studies
Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2014
Developmental composition courses serve a sizable and growing number of Generation 1.5 students, or long-term U.S. resident language learners, and it is believed that language challenges may be part of Generation 1.5 writers' difficulty in controlling the academic register. The current study investigates possible similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Callahan, M. Kate; Chumney, Donalda – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Twenty percent of first-year students in public 4-year institutions and 42% of first-year students in public 2-year institutions in the United States enroll in remedial courses. Yet despite widespread remediation across U.S. colleges and universities, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about how remedial courses develop…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Basic Writing, Research Universities, Community Colleges

Zeni, Jane; Thomas, Joan Krater – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Compares White and African-American basic writers' texts produced during districtwide holistic writing assessments. Shows that White basic writers differ little from African-American basic writers, although African-Americans tend to use a stronger personal voice and drop standard word ending. Concludes that dialect is not the key issue. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Secondary Education

Reed, W. Michael; Sherman, Thomas M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1991
Describes the effects of two prewriting strategies for the generation and storage of ideas (external storage and heuristic) on freshman English students' compositions in honors and basic writing classes. Both honors and remedial students produced the best essays when writing under conditions closely approximating their usual prewriting behavior.…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Comparative Analysis, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Griffee, Dale T. – Learning Assistance Review, 2007
This 10 week longitudinal evaluation study evaluated a brain-based learning curriculum proposed by Smilkstein (2003) by comparing student performance in a traditional basic writing curriculum with NHLP-oriented basic writing curriculum. The study included two classes each of experimental and traditional methods. Results of the data, gathered by…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Brain, Teaching Methods, Scientific Research

Benson, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Presents findings of a study comparing compositions by beginning writing and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students at a two-year college. Reports similarities in the groups' topic choices, topic sentence use, and expository development. Reveals that ESL students tended to write shorter papers containing more sentence level errors. Discusses…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Expository Writing

Rossen-Knill, Deborah; Lynch, Kim – Journal of Basic Writing, 2000
Presents a holistic method for describing basic writers and their writing to encourage classroom research at two- and four-year colleges and enables comparisons of basic writers across institutions. Offers some preliminary results from the pilot study to illustrate the type of findings this approach yields and highlights the importance of such…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Crews, Denise M.; Aragon, Steven R. – Community College Review, 2004
This study examined the relationships between first semester participation in a community college developmental writing course and short and longterm academic performance. The study examined whether developmental writing course participants earned higher grades at higher rates at the end of a 3-year period following initial college enrollment when…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Enrollment, Academic Achievement, Basic Writing

Zak, Frances – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Explores different modes of responding to student papers in two sections of an Introduction to Writing Process class for native and non-native speakers. Finds no significant differences in performance of the two sections, although students who received only positive comments frequently initiated their own corrections and seemed to gain greater…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education

Meem, Deborah T. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1992
Describes a five-year study at University College, University of Cincinnati, comparing the writing of basic writing students who (1) did not use computers; (2) used a computer and word processing program; and (3) used a supplementary program guiding students through the writing process. Reports no significant differences in writing quality. (DMM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Handwriting

Song, Bailin; Richter, Eva – Writing Center Journal, 1997
States that after a qualitative survey of participating instructors suggested the success of an in-class tutoring program at the open-admissions Kingsborough Community College, a quantitative survey compared the writing performance of students served by the program and those who were not. Indicates the program's success--more of those tutored…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research

Morrison, Beverly H. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1999
Identifies traits associated with conditionally admitted students that differentiate them from the total freshmen population, establishes characteristics associated with the most and least successful students in the developmental writing classes, and then uses the findings to better serve students in all components of the developmental program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Writing, College Freshmen, College Preparation
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