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Download full textYoung, Michael W. – 1994
In a pilot study based on a project underwritten by the United States Department of Education to add more study of international issues to writing courses, revisions in content to both a first your and an advanced composition course were tested during 1993-94. The method for the classroom procedures was also changed to enhance the greater…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Pilot Projects
Kahn, Elizabeth A.; Johannessen, Larry R. – 1986
A continuing concern of theorists in composition and rhetoric has been the problem of how to design effective writing assignments. With the recent movement in writing assessment from objective tests to writing samples, this problem has become even more important for those who produce "tests" designed to elicit writing samples. A study…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, High Schools, Student Evaluation, Student Needs
Redd, Teresa M. – 1992
Two studies compared the impact of black and white audiences on black students' writing style. In the first study, eight students in an all-black intermediate composition class completed one argumentative draft addressed to black opponents and one addressed to white opponents on two different topics. The essays were examined for stylistic features…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Black Dialects, Black Students, Discourse Analysis
Cobine, Gary R. – 1994
A study examined how student-writers accommodated a real audience--that is how they adapted their writing to communicate clearly and forcefully with an audience other than the teacher. Subjects, 18 students in a pre-composition, remedial English course at Indiana University East, were asked to revise the formal drafts into a…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Revision (Written Composition)
McCarthey, Sarah J. – 1993
This paper uses two case studies to explore the risk and opportunities of writing from students' personal experiences. Anthony, a high-achieving, Hispanic fifth-grader, and Anita, a low-achieving, African-American sixth-grader, participated in a writing workshop in which students kept notebooks of their personal experiences and reflections. The…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Peer reviewedOliver, Eileen I. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1995
Reviews a study examining the influence of rhetorical specification in writing prompts on the writing quality of 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-grade students, and college freshmen. Analyzes the main and interactive effects of topic, purpose, and audience on writing quality. Indicates that students use different kinds of rhetorical information at different…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, College Freshmen, Developmental Stages, Higher Education
Stewart, Margaret E.; Palcic, Ronald A. – 1992
A study examined the role of audience in preservice mathematics education students' writing experiences. Subjects, students in two mathematics education classes taught by the same teacher, completed writing assignments explaining the principles of mathematics to elementary school pupils. Students in one class wrote to actual students, serving as…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – 1994
As part of a larger project, a ninth-grade class participated in a year-long exchange of writing with students in an inner-city London classroom. The larger project involved 10 San Francisco Bay Area sixth- through ninth-grade classes exchanging writing with nine inner-city London classes and a Swedish class. Students and teachers in each of the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
