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Proofreading Skills and Writing Proficiency: Error Detection, Editing Accuracy and Linguistic Competence.
Rapp, Linda Chan – 1988
A study investigated the relationship between writing proficiency and two aspects of proofreading: (1) the ability to detect structural errors, and (2) the ability to accurately correct them. During the fall of 1986 seventeen English-as-a-Second-Language students in the intermediate-level grammar review and paragraph writing class at Biola…
Descriptors: Editing, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammatical Acceptability