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Peer reviewedCharolles, Michel – Langue Francaise, 1978
Examines teacher response to learner errors in composition, and proposes rules for coherent writing. (AM)
Descriptors: Coherence, Educational Research, Error Analysis (Language), French
Waldron, Karen A. – Pointer, 1987
The article describes a secondary-level curriculum for written expression based on a linguistic model. Directed toward learning disabled adolescents, the method teaches sentence and paragraph construction based on verbal and written models presented by the teacher. Writing good sentences, paragraphs, and essays is presented as a logical extension…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Essays, Expository Writing, Expressive Language
Peters, P. H. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Examines the lexis of two university students and identifies their styles and competence levels. (DF)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis
Download full textRohloff, Jean M. – 2000
This handbook presents materials for 10 DESK (Developing English Skills and Knowledge) workshops designed to assist students with deafness or hearing impairments make a smooth transition from high school to postsecondary institutions by enhancing their English writing skills. The workshops address: (1) demystifying college by allowing students to…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Deafness, Essays, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedVande Kopple, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Reports of research on using different patterns for connecting sentences. Shows the importance of applying insights from text linguistics to writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), High School Students
Peer reviewedBiegert, Doris A. – Teaching and Change, 1995
A second-grade teacher studied student development when writing occurred daily in the classroom. Assignments included journal, paragraph, and creative writing. The teacher assumed that with daily writing, reading, and spelling would improve. Results indicated that students' reading and writing improved but not spelling; and with forced daily…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Creative Writing, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Mothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C. – Online Submission, 2006
A challenge facing educators is to find ways to arrest and reverse the cumulative deficit in reading experienced by many students with learning disabilities. In this study, we evaluated the effect of a strategy intervention to increase the reading comprehension of eighth grade students with reading disabilities in intact junior high school classes…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Grade 8, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Direct linkGorin, Joanna S.; Embretson, Susan E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2006
Recent assessment research joining cognitive psychology and psychometric theory has introduced a new technology, item generation. In algorithmic item generation, items are systematically created based on specific combinations of features that underlie the processing required to correctly solve a problem. Reading comprehension items have been more…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Test Items, Modeling (Psychology), Paragraph Composition
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed as part of the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, these instructional modules are designed to help low-level readers develop paragraph composition skills. The first module is a list of 10 topics about which students are daily to write several paragraphs related to their craft. The second module consists of 10…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Learning Activities
Liu, Yue – 1996
An approach to teaching expository writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) to native speakers of Chinese is offered. It is based on a comparison and classification of rhetorical patterns in the two languages. Chinese rhetoric contains a wide variety of methods of presentation, including both direct and indirect, or metaphoric, forms. It is…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics
Tickoo, Asha – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Two samples of college student writing, paragraphs from freshman compositions, are analyzed for presence or absence of two characteristics of literate prose, decontextualization and autonomy. Writing is decontextualized and autonomous when whatever is needed for its comprehension is included in the words of the text, and comprehension is not…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Hogge, Joan Ellet – 1985
Acknowledging that ordering, spatial orientation, and synthesis are important properties in achieving clarity in writing, a study investigated the biological influences on students' writing processes and ways to help writers produce more coherent written products. Subjects, two males and four females ranging in age from 19 to 40, were tested using…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Coherence
Gerhard, Christian; Smith, Laura J. – 1985
Recognizing the need for some form of evaluation of students' ability to understand the organization of ideas in different subject areas, a study was conducted to evaluate 450 paragraphs written by students aged 12 to 17. Students chose one of three groups of four words each to write on. Each group represented a category, the subjects being…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Spencer, D. H. – 1981
Written examinations are considered to be more searching than oral ones; they are less subject to chance because they give more time to the student for reflection, and they do not favor one type of learner over another. This view is taken even though language is speech before it is writing. While there may be a need for a complementary oral…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Language Tests
Graetz, Naomi – 1982
The benefits for students of English as a second language of reading abstracts are considered, and the functions and types of abstracts are reviewed. In addition, the results of a survey of Ben Gurion University (Israel) lecturers regarding their reading habits and use of abstracts are briefly addressed. It is suggested that when abstracts are…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Advance Organizers, Cohesion (Written Composition), Curriculum Design
