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Peer reviewedMcCutchen, Deborah; And Others – Written Communication, 1987
Describes two studies that investigated the editing strategies used by college basic writing students as they corrected sentence-level errors in controlled editing tasks. Indicates that, in both studies, students showed two clearly different editing strategies: a consulting strategy and an intuiting strategy. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Editing, Error Patterns, Higher Education
