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Schwartz, Shirley S.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Preventing School Failure, 1990
This paper provides an overview of the Computers and Writing Instruction Project, a field-tested curriculum for teaching writing to learning-disabled students consisting of a process approach, word processing, and strategy instruction. Its scope and sequence are described and guidelines for establishing a writer's workshop in the classroom…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Two studies compared handwriting, word processing, and word prediction with speech-synthesis software (PR) with three intermediate-grade students with severe spelling problems. Results suggested that PR software can improve the writing of such students under certain circumstances but that constraints, such as the difficulty of using the software,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Handwriting
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The paper discusses: features of word processors and their impact on the writing process and the social context for writing; research on word processors in schools and the potential instructional role of extensions to word processors, such as spelling and style checkers, synthesized speech output, computer networks, and interactive prompting…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education