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Peer reviewedMabrito, Mark – Business Communication Quarterly, 2000
Examines the online communications behavior of students with high degrees of writing apprehension as they communicated with both familiar and unknown audiences via Internet newsgroups. Finds that low-apprehensive writers tend to exhibit similar communication strategies in both types of newsgroups, but high-apprehensive writers contributed more and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMcDowell, Earl – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1998
Finds significant relationships between computer anxiety and computer/word processing, between computer anxiety and computer electronic discussion group, and between computer anxiety and online computer service among 130 students from a variety of undergraduate rhetoric classes at a large midwestern university. Finds also significant differences…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Computer Anxiety, Computer Mediated Communication
Peer reviewedHarris, Judith; Grandgenett, Neal – Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 1992
A study measured graduate students' writing apprehension and computer anxiety levels before and after using electronic mail, computer conferencing, and remote database searching facilities during an educational technology course. Results indicted postcourse computer anxiety levels significantly related to usage statistics. Precourse writing…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Electronic Mail
Download full textMcDowell, Earl E.; Schuelke, L. David – 1998
This study explored the relationships among communication technologies, communication apprehension, writing apprehension, and computer anxiety. Participants were 130 students from a variety of undergraduate oral communication classes in a large midwestern university who completed a modified form, 10 items, of McCroskey's Personal Report of…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Computer Anxiety, Computer Mediated Communication
Dunham, Trudy – 1987
This report describes the Learning Disabled College Writer's Project, implemented at the University of Minnesota during the 1985-86 school year and designed to aid learning disabled college students master composition skills through training in the use of microcomputer word processors. Following an executive summary, an introduction states the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Barfield, Andrew, Ed.; Betts, Robert, Ed.; Cunningham, Joyce, Ed.; Dunn, Neil, Ed.; Katsura, Haruko, Ed.; Kobayashi, Kunihiko, Ed.; Padden, Nina, Ed.; Parry, Neil, Ed.; Watanabe, Mayumi, Ed. – 1999
This volume includes papers presented at the 1998 Japan Association for Language Teaching Conference. Section 1, "Voices of Experience," includes: "Towards More Use of English in Class by JTEs" (Midori Iwano); "Paperless Portfolios" (Tim Stewart); "Textbook Creation in Reverse Order for Chinese" (Chou Jine…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audiotape Recordings, Career Exploration, Chinese
