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The Organization of Impromptu Essays.
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Haswell, Richard H. – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Describes a classification of organizational patterns for whole essays and a method by which both teachers and researchers may use it to analyze student essays. Reports the results of such an analysis applied to a controlled study of undergraduate writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research.
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Conners, Robert J.; Lunsford, Andrea A. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Describes the authors' error-frequency research, relating how they collected 19,615 teacher-marked student papers from the 1980s, analyzed them, and determined the major patterns of formal and mechanical error in current student writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education