Intended to make the educational community aware of how research has defined acceptable practice in writing assessment, this annotated bibliography examines research about writing evaluation. Divided into five sections, the first section of the bibliography surveys some psychological and linguistic studies of the development of students' writing…

Intended for teachers, this bibliography lists 3 books and 16 journal articles about evaluating writing. The works cover such aspects as the effects of praise and blame on student writing, the evaluation of composition without using grades, an evaluation system that promotes writing, procedures for evaluating writing, holistic reading in the…

This 64-item bibliography focuses on the effect of keyboarding on middle school students' composition writing, using word processing. The bibliography (which surveys selections dating from 1956 through 1989) includes those studies describing the feasibility of teaching touch typing keyboarding skills to middle school students, the value of…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) teachers' written comments on the transactional writing of high school seniors; (2) the effect of a training program on the fluctuation of raters' scoring of…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The eight titles deal with the following topics: (1) the literacy demands of clerical workers; (2) reading as a composing process; (3) relationships between reading and writing performance; (4) the effects of instruction in…