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Computer-Mediated Communication and High-Apprehensive Writers: Rethinking the Collaborative Process.

Mabrito, Mark – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1992
Examines groups of business writing students containing high- and low-apprehensive writers, communicating about writing in both a face-to-face setting and through electronic mail. Concludes that, for both types of writers, collaboratively planning documents on e-mail enhanced the collaborative process. (MM)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks

Harris, Judith; Grandgenett, Neal – Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 1992
A study measured graduate students' writing apprehension and computer anxiety levels before and after using electronic mail, computer conferencing, and remote database searching facilities during an educational technology course. Results indicted postcourse computer anxiety levels significantly related to usage statistics. Precourse writing…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Electronic Mail

Harris, Judith B.; Grandgenett, Neal – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1996
Describes a study of 189 elementary and secondary school educators with accounts on Tenet (Texas Education Network) whose logins and online time for one year were correlated with nine variables: writing apprehension, oral communication apprehension, computer anxiety, age, teaching experience, telecomputing experience, gender, professional…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Computer Anxiety, Computer Networks, Correlation