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Peer reviewedOwnby, Raymond L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1990
Tested model for writing psychological reports that specified types of data and mode of data presentation most likely to be viewed positively by readers. School psychologists rated comparable sets of statements that might appear in school psychological reports, one set model based and the other not. Respondents rated model-based statements as…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Models, Readability, School Psychologists
Peer reviewedGreen, David W. – Written Communication, 1986
Outlines two hypotheses about the reasons for obscurity in expository writing and notes that neither accounts for the general results of an exploratory study of the writing of postgraduates nor for the individual cases presented. Argues that a crucial factor is a person's implicit model of expository writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Campbell, William Giles; And Others – 1990
The eighth edition of this manual, which incorporates recent changes in bibliographical format made by "The Chicago Manual of Style" and the Modern Language Association of America, provides guidance to writers of research papers and reports in college, graduate school, business, government, and the professions. The review of the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
