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Conners, Robert J.; Lunsford, Andrea A. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Describes the authors' error-frequency research, relating how they collected 19,615 teacher-marked student papers from the 1980s, analyzed them, and determined the major patterns of formal and mechanical error in current student writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education

Greenbaum, Sidney; Taylor, John – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Presents results of a study on how accurately instructors in composition identified various kinds of errors. (RL)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Higher Education