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Green, Wendy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
This paper investigates the approaches taken to essay writing by five Asian international students at an Australian university. Analysis of their in-depth interviews reveals links between their perceptions of learning, their perceptions of essay writing, their motivation for completing the task, and their awareness of the structural conventions of…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Discovery Processes
Smith, Helen C. – 1987
The "Write a Sentence Test" was developed for use in the evaluation of student writing abilities in association with a project in Memphis, Tennessee. This paper discusses ways of administering and scoring the test, decisions concerning modification of the test, and experiences when the test was administered to sample subjects. All forms…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), English Instruction, Grammar, Punctuation
Stoneberg, Bert, Jr. – 1988
Under the leadership of the Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Greater Albany (Oregon) Public Schools conducted its second annual district assessment of writing skills of students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11, using the "analytic trait scoring" method (ATS). The testing procedure, diagnostic in purpose, conformed to the writing process…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7
Stoneberg, Bert, Jr. – 1987
Under the leadership of the Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Greater Albany (Oregon) Public Schools conducted a district assessment of writing skills of students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11, using the "analytic trait scoring" method (ATS). The testing procedure conformed to the writing process implemented through the district's Real…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7
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Faigley, Lester – College Composition and Communication, 1989
Contrasts a recent collection of "best" student essays with a report reviewing a 1929 test in English that was used for making college admissions decisions. Concludes that writing teachers have been as much or more interested in who they want their students to be as in what they want their students to write. (RS)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Comparative Analysis, Educational History, Essay Tests
Rogers, Sandra H. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Writing research has long attempted to define and assess coherence in written prose; however the researchers have often ignored or inadequately met the needs of writing students who require a simple definition of coherence that they can use to revise their own prose. One exception is Joseph Williams, author of "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Prose
Ladd, Pam Leneave; Hatton, Sharon Crawford – 1997
A study examined student writing portfolios to determine improvement of student writing due to instructional changes under the guidelines and standards established for the Kentucky Writing Program. A random sample of 1991-92 and 1994-95 fourth-grade portfolios were analyzed, 10% from each of the 8 elementary schools in the Muhlenberg County school…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 4, Instructional Improvement, Intermediate Grades