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What Is Good Writing? Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut, December 6, 1980).
Sheidley, William E., Ed.; And Others – 1985
The focus of the conference proceedings in this booklet was evaluation of student writing at various levels and in various fields. The booklet contains a schedule of activities; a description of the morning session, which included a panel discussion on evaluating writing in college freshman composition courses; examples of students' papers, with…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
A Range of Informative Writing. Discussion Booklet 3: A Report on the 1982 C. E. E. English Cross-Moderation Exercise.
Dixon, John; Stratta, Leslie – 1982
A consideration of real world language use yields five questions that could prove helpful in assessing student writing achievements: (1) What is the writer's purpose or intention? (2) What audience does the writer have in mind? (3) What are the organizing principles of the piece? (4) What range of experience and knowledge might one reasonably…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Instructional Improvement, Secondary Education
Computers in Composition Instruction. The Proceedings of a Research/Practice Conference Held at SWRL Educational Research and Development (Los Alamitos, California, April 22-23, 1982).
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Lawlor, Joseph, Ed. – 1982
Suggestions for integrating computer technology and composition instruction are presented in four conference papers, summaries of four conference courseware demonstrations, a paper describing computer-based evaluation of textual responses, and a reactor's address. In an overview of the current state of computer-based composition instruction,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Demonstration Programs, Design Requirements
Writing: Policies, Problems, and Possibilities. Proceedings of a Conference Co-Sponsored by SWRL Educational Research and Development and by California State Unversity (Los Alamitos, California, May 7, 1982).
Cronnell, Bruce, Ed.; Michael, Joan, Ed. – 1982
Drawn from a California conference that brought together writing instructors and researchers, the papers in this compilation address problems in writing, policies affecting both writing instruction and assessment, and possibilities for improving both areas. Papers in the first section of the book represent positions of eight separate entities: (1)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Mass Media
Sentence Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective.
Daiker, Donald A., Ed.; And Others – 1985
The 23 original essays on sentence combining in this volume range in focus from classroom methodology and effectiveness, through theoretical issues and syntactic constructions, to current issues in the field. The essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "The Role of the Elaborated Dominant Nominal in the Measurement of Conceptual and…
Descriptors: Coherence, Epistemology, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Coherence and Composition: A Symposium. Papers. (Abo, Finland, March 16-18, 1984).
Enkvist, Nils Erik, Ed. – 1985
A selection of the papers from a symposium on the application of linguistic concepts to teaching composition are contained in this document. The papers and authors are as follows: "Introduction: Coherence, Composition, and Text Linguistics" (Nils Erik Enkvist); "TUAP and the Teaching of Writing in Sweden" (Lennart Bjork): "Discourse-Level…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Moving between Practice and Research in Writing.
Humes, Ann, Ed.; And Others – 1981
This volume focuses on papers presented by grantees supported by the National Institute of Education and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education at a meeting held in September, 1980. Papers are grouped into the following sections: composing processes and development, writing assessment, writing instruction in context, the writing…
Descriptors: College English, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Selected Papers from the 1981 Texas Writing Research Conference (Austin, Texas, August 1981).
Hairston, Maxine C., Ed.; Selfe, Cynthia L., Ed. – 1981
Nine selected papers presented at the Texas Writing Research Group's 1981 conference are offered in this collection. The papers discuss (1) sources of linguistic interference among American minorities; (2) contributions of discourse analysis to composition; (3) emerging notions of heuristic (investigative), eristic (controversial), and protreptic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, History, Language Variation
Selected Papers from the 1982 Conference "New York Writes: Kindergarten through College" (New York, New York, April 3, 1982).
Kwalick, Barry, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Presenting sound instructional strategies and writing theories, these proceedings of a conference held at Marymount Manhattan College address the needs of writing teachers at all educational levels. Following an introduction outlining the conference and the "New York Writes" project, the keynote address discusses the renewed interest in…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)