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Peer reviewedAckerman, John M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1991
Analyzes synthesis essays of graduate students for the importance and origin of information and for the quality of key rhetorical moves. Confirms the interrelatedness of comprehension and composing processes and illustrates how writers, with varying levels of topic familiarity, use both their knowledge of disciplinary topics and their experience…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkBeaufort, Anne – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
In literacy and composition studies, efforts to develop data-driven theories of disciplinary writing expertise and of writers' developmental processes in joining specific discourse communities have so far been limited. This case study, of one writer's experiences as an undergraduate history major, parses the multiple knowledge domains comprising…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Discourse Communities, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewedLanger, Judith A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Investigates the relationship between topic-specific background knowledge and measures of overall quality, coherence, syntactic complexity, audience, and function in the expository writing of tenth grade students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Grade 10
