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Haswell, Richard H. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Asserts that the complexities peculiar to "bottom-writings" (essays graded at the lower end of a holistic scale) are often overlooked. Analyzes organizational patterns of high-rated, low-rated, and professional writers, noting similarities between the latter two groups. Considers how teachers can work with the skills bottom writers…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Writing Evaluation
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Lutkus, Alan – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Compares two methods for evaluating syntactic complexity and maturity: (1) the T-unit method of W. K. Hunt and (2) the sentence weight method of P. DiStephano and S. Howie. Concludes that sentence weight is no more accurate than T-units, and more difficult to compute. (JG)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Syntax, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction
Flower, Linda; Hayes, John R. – 1981
This examination of an evaluation of writing based on process rather than on product argues that one of the primary functions of evaluation as a part of teaching should be to diagnose the writing strategies that underlie a writer's current performance, not just textual problems. The first half of the paper discusses the various ways teachers use…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Prewriting, Writing (Composition)
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Sloan, Gary – College English, 1984
Analyzes the use of transitional markers in 25 published essays. Concludes that while marker usage at times obfuscates rather than clarifies relationships, it can also enhance the writer's authority and provide both writer and reader with a mental respite before they plunge into the next thought. (MM)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Readability, Writing Evaluation
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Smith, Summer – College Composition and Communication, 1997
Analyzes 208 comments written at the end of student papers by 10 teaching assistants at Penn State. Analyzes a second sample containing end comments written earlier at other universities. Identifies 16 primary genres, falling into 3 groups: judging genres, reader response genres, and coaching genres. (PA)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Teacher Response
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Connor, Ulla – TESOL Quarterly, 1987
Describes recent advances in writing analysis and their implications for English as a second language writing instruction. The principal theme emphasized is that text analysis of written products, which complements process-centered research, is needed for an integrated theory of writing. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Evaluation
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Fang, Zhihui; Cox, Beverly E. – National Reading Conference Yearbook, 1998
Finds developmental changes in both cohesive harmony and holistic writing quality in the writing of first graders, suggesting that cohesive harmony may be a sensitive measure of textual quality. Finds no consistent relationship between measures of cohesive ties and cohesive harmony. Suggests that cohesive harmony is a viable tool for discourse…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Grade 1
McKenna, Marian J. – 1988
To discover what variables are involved in the production of text coherence, and how cohesion and coherence are different, a study collected 30 papers randomly selected from over 200 papers written by incoming freshmen college students at a local community college. The papers were rated by 21 state conference participants. Raters were in-service…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Quellmalz, Edys; And Others – 1980
The complexity of writing as a skill domain and the lack of consensus about its components have engendered much controversy about the type, length, or number of tasks that should be administered in a given test form and even about whether some aspects of composition require direct assessment through writing samples. Acknowledging this, a study was…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Assessment, Holistic Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
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Bamberg, Betty – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes a study that developed a valid method of assessing coherence based on current linguistic theory and discourse analysis that was then used to reanalyze the "Describe" essays written by 13- and 17-year-old students for the 1969, 1973-74, and 1978-79 NAEP assessments. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Essays
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Witte, Stephen P.; Davis, Anne S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Investigates the question of T-unit length stability in informative discourse written by freshmen near the end of an intensive course in college writing. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Hacker, Tim – 1994
A quasi-experimental study determined the effectiveness of teacher conferences as a modeling technique in freshman composition, as measured by the quantity and quality of selected characteristics in peer response group discourse. Subjects, 22 students in the "experimental" section and 24 students in another section of second semester…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Bizzell, Patricia – 1986
The two current approaches to teaching academic discourse are conventional and collaborative; in practice, they overlap because both are based on a "conversational model" of learning to write in college. Taxonomists and collaborationists disagree on the relative emphasis that should be placed on the various pedagogical methods:…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Connected Discourse, Cooperation, Discourse Analysis
DeRemer, Mary; Bracewell, Robert – 1989
A study examined the semantic modifications students made to their texts in a structured revision task. Nineteen grade 6 students revised a book report they had previously written in class. Students: (1) added or deleted information from their texts in specific places identified by the experimenters through semantic frame analyses; (2) judged…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Grade 6, Holistic Evaluation
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Tierney, Robert J.; Mosenthal, James H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Using essays written by twelfth grade students, a study explored the relationship of Halliday and Hasan's system for analyzing cohesion and instructors' ranking of textual coherence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
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