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Selfe, Cynthia L. – 1984
To explore the role of one specific revision strategy--reading and rereading pieces of text--in the composing process, case studies were made of two college freshman writers: Jim, who was highly apprehensive about the process of composing, and David, who was not at all apprehensive about writing. Specifically, videotapes of the students' composing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Higher Education
King, Martha L.; Rentel, Victor M. – 1981
Described in this report is a longitudinal study that examined the transition that children make from oral to written texts in respect to their use of cohesive devices and particular story structure elements in two modes of oral and one mode of written language. The first section provides an overview of the study and discusses literacy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Handwriting
Maguire, Mary H. – 1978
A study investigated whether there were commonalities of cue patterns in six selected tenth grade students' reading and writing that could be discovered from each student's respective language use and perception of the two distinct but interrelated processes. Specifically, the study explored how two above-average readers, two average readers, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 10, Language Patterns, Language Processing