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Peer reviewedWallace, David L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1996
Examines the extent to which asking 20 entry-level and 19 basic-level college writing students to articulate their initial intentions for writing facilitated the identification of 3 kinds of instructional problems students face in moving from intentions to texts. Suggests that students with useful initial intentions write more effective texts than…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Educational Objectives
