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Peer reviewedSchwartz, Mimi – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Analyzes the steps in the writing of an established poet and an 11-year-old boy. An appendix provides suggestions about how to encourage meaningful revision. (FL)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Narration
Armstrong, Cherryl – 1985
Focusing on the nature of revision in lyric poetry, a study investigated poets' writing processes. Primary data sources included poets' commentary, letters, recorded conversations, interviews, and essays. Two case studies were also conducted--an evaluation of two poets at work (one a novice and one an experienced poet) and a textual analysis of…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis
DeGroff, Linda-Jo Caple – 1986
A study examined the influence of prior knowledge on the quality of responses in three process-approach tasks: writing, conferencing, and revising. Subjects, 20 high-knowledge and 20 low-knowledge fourth grade students, wrote stories about a baseball game. Propositional text bases of first and second drafts were analyzed according to six…
Descriptors: Baseball, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Hawisher, Gail E. – 1986
A study explored the effects of word processing on the revision strategies of 20 advanced college freshmen enrolled in a required writing course. Subjects were divided into two groups of 10, each of which alternately wrote a series of four essays on and off the computer. For each essay students submitted three drafts, which were analyzed for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Analysis
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1984
Building upon the National Study of Writing in the Secondary School conducted in 1981, this volume presents the results of recent scholarly inquiry into the nature of writing. Background information for the study is discussed in chapter 1, while chapter 2 describes the additional data that have been gathered since the national survey: a study of…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Writing, Prior Learning, Revision (Written Composition)
Freedman, Aviva; Pringle, Ian – 1980
Prepared as part of a project designed to provide an objectively measured indication of the quality of student writing in one school district, this paper examines argumentative and narrative essays written by students at the fifth, eighth, and twelfth grade levels. The first section of the paper discusses the primary analysis of student writing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 12
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 38 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) how writing centers succeed and fail; (2) the effects of scoring method, topic, and mode on grade 12 students' writing scores; (3) analysis of the peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Annotated Bibliographies, Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction
