NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wallot, Sebastian – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Processes of naturalistic reading and writing are based on complex linguistic input, stretch-out over time, and rely on an integrated performance of multiple perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes. Hence, naturalistic reading and writing performance is nonstationary and exhibits fluctuations and transitions. However, instead of being just…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Reading, Writing (Composition), Repetition
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Zhu, Wei – Written Communication, 1995
Investigates effects of training for peer response in freshman composition classes during one semester. States that students in the experimental group were trained via teacher-student conferences where teachers met with students to practice peer response strategies, while students in the control group received no systematic training. Finds that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Feedback, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Foster, Gretchen – 1984
In order to help science students communicate more effectively with people outside their field, a two-semester technical writing course was developed with an emphasis on thinking rather than on blind adherence to the rules and forms of technical writing. The initial test group was composed of freshman science majors with exceptional writing…
Descriptors: Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Writing, Course Objectives
Norton, Robert F. – 1987
Major writing style differences between Korean and U.S. essayists are examined in order to determine: (1) the types of relationships expressed in a specific essay; (2) the sequence in which related ideas are expressed; and (3) the distance between two ideas that comprise each relationship. Eighteen basic types of relationships were examined in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Roblyer, M. D. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1997
Introduced to aid writing, word processing can cause unexpected problems for those who use it. Describes four studies in which raters gave word-processed essays consistently lower scores than handwritten essays. Reasons for the discrepancies were higher expectations for typed essays, ease of spotting text errors in typed text, and more difficulty…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1984
Using data collected from kindergarten and second grade children in a study of young children's concepts about writing as reflected in their school writing behaviors, this report focuses on information gathered from second grade children. The introductory chapter restates the research questions guiding the study and briefly reviews the major…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Classroom Environment