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Download full textCollins, James L.; Collins, Kathleen M. – 1994
Writing processes and writing skills are highly compatible, but only if "writing skills" are defined as genuinely helpful learning strategies rather than prescriptive techniques or isolated forms and rules. Increased skill is a product of meaningful practice, not prescriptive instructions or isolated drills. In the present context, the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Skill Development
Peer reviewedSchwartz, 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
