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Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F.; Leaman, Hayden L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Examines the differences in quality ratings that 20 teachers in each of three high school curricular areas gave samples of written argument by college freshmen and investigates the relationship between the three groups of quality ratings and eight syntactic and mechanics-of-writing variables. (FL)
Descriptors: Assignments, College Freshmen, High Schools, Persuasive Discourse
Peer reviewedScharton, Maurice – Research in the Teaching of English, 1989
Reports a study of teachers' and writers' interpretations of scenario assignments. Finds that, among the three groups tested (graduate students trained to teach rhetoric, academically successful undergraduate students trained as tutors, and entering freshmen) experienced writers' interpretations adhered most closely to the interpretive community's…
Descriptors: Assignments, Competence, Heuristics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPurves, A. C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences
