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Direct linkSánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This study examined the impact of teaching students to provide and incorporate peers' feedback on their partners' second language (L2) writing. Sixty-five participants enrolled in Spanish composition classes were assigned to one of three conditions: trained peer review (n = 21), untrained peer review (n =21), and a non-peer-review comparison group…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Kurth, Ruth J. – Educational Technology, 1987
Describes a study designed to determine whether the use of computer word processing would improve both the amount and quality of revision done by high school student writers. The effects of word processing on composition length and revision, and students' attitudes toward writing and word processing are discussed. (47 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Expository Writing, High Schools
Download full textJackson, Delores M. – 1996
Many educators are concerned with how writing should be taught, especially in the elementary grades. Many teachers are under the impression that when they have their students write simple sentences using vocabulary words and punctuation marks, they are teaching their students that this is writing. In traditionally taught classes, the elementary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 3
Hult, Christine A. – 1982
To examine the relationship between writers' knowledge of expository frames--conventions accepted by both writers and readers in association with a particular type of discourse--and writing skill, 60 persuasive essays were analyzed for content organization. The essays, evaluated as either above average or average on a high school writing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedLutz, Jean A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Uses text processing (computer) and pen and paper protocols to compare the revising process of professional writers and experienced writers (PhD students). Concludes tentatively that (1) professional and experienced writers do not differ in their approach; (2) the interaction between human and machine influences the writing process; and (3) that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Expository Writing
Swiggett, Betty M. – 1979
A study was conducted to (1) examine the relation of syntactic complexity to mode of discourse in the writing of eighth and twelfth grade students; (2) determine to what extent variations observed were related to grade level, socioeconomic status, and race; and (3) determine to what extent the syntactic complexity achieved on a rewriting task…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Developmental Stages
