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Peer reviewedHorgan, Dianne D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1983
The content of 228 college student's writing samples appears to be a main determiner of how many and what types of preposition errors will appear. These results indicate that preposition errors point to cognitive lags and complex, abstract writing tasks may be the appropriate treatment. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns
