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Daemmrich, Ingrid G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Composition teachers have generally embraced collaborative learning in the years since Kenneth Bruffee published his first article promoting its advantages in "College English" in 1972. But assigning collaboratively written papers in an introductory college writing course is still rare. This study assesses the benefits and drawbacks of assigning a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College English, Collaborative Writing, Essays
Teichman, Milton; Poris, Marilyn – 1988
To learn more about the initial effects of word processing on essay-writing performance and on writing apprehension, eight English instructors at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, conducted a one-semester controlled experiment with freshmen in eight randomly selected college writing classes. Eighty students wrote essays using terminals…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy