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Anderson, Kate T. – Written Communication, 2013
Against the backdrop of proliferating research on multimodality in the fields of literacy and writing studies, this article considers the contributions of two prominent theoretical perspectives--Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Situated Literacies--and the methodological tensions they raise for the study of multimodality. To delineate…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Writing Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Educational Research
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Bridgeman, Brent; Carlson, Sybil B. – Written Communication, 1984
A survey of 190 academic departments in 34 universities indicates that considerable variability exists across fields in the kinds of writing required and in preferred assessment topics. (FL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, School Surveys
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Smagorinsky, Peter – Written Communication, 1986
Explains why structured composition assignments produce better writing than nondirectional writing experiences, explores the reasons for this, and establishes hypotheses based on these reasons for developing a theory of composition instruction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education