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Williams, Joan; Wason, Peter – 1977
This paper describes a classroom game designed to help students overcome their fear of writing. Two classes of top- and middle-ability adolescents were divided into pairs to work on a single composition. After the teacher proposed the initial sentence, the partners took turns writing sentences to complete the story. Although the collaborative…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Communication (Thought Transfer), Connected Discourse
