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White, Janet – Research Papers in Education, 1989
Findings are reported from a longitudinal study, involving 8- to 10-year-old students in England, which evaluated and analyzed student writing samples. The writing samples were elicited by tests intended to produce two kinds of writing: a story and a description. (IAH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Conry, Robert; Jeroski, Sharon – 1980
About 9,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 participated in three writing excersises: (1) directed--short passage in response to a specific request; (2) global--extended narrative or exposition on a broad topic; and (3) proofreading and editing. The exercises reflected writing tasks required of the average adult as a citizen worker or creative…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Editing