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Kathrynn DiTommaso – Forum for International Research on Students and Teaching, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a study of student writing that assessed the skill needs of a cohort of developmental writing students enrolled in a co-requisite composition course at a community college that is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). This credit-bearing course fulfills the first half of the required composition…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Freshman Composition, Writing Evaluation, Diagnostic Teaching
MacArthur, Charles A.; Jennings, Amanda; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The study developed a model of linguistic constructs to predict writing quality for college basic writers and analyzed how those constructs changed following instruction. Analysis used a corpus of argumentative essays from a quasi-experimental, instructional study with 252 students (MacArthur, Philippakos, & Ianetta, 2015) that found large…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Writing Achievement
Sacher, Cassandra L. O. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2016
Since high school students are failing to master writing proficiency, developmental writing programs at the college level have become increasingly necessary. This article explains the lack of readiness with which students are entering college and the workplace, examines the reasons students are having trouble writing, and describes elements of…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Developmental Programs, Basic Writing
McCurdy, Merilee; Skinner, Christopher; Watson, Steuart; Shriver, Mark – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Many students have difficulty in educational and employment settings because they have failed to master basic writing skills. Multiple-baseline across-tasks designs were used to evaluate the effects of the Comprehensive Writing Program (CWP), a multicomponent intervention, on the writing performance of all students (n = 17) from 3 9th-grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sentences, Basic Writing, Learning Disabilities

Belanoff, Pat – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Challenges several myths about writing assessment held by educators. Argues for the validity of assessments developed within particular environments for particular purposes agreed to by those teaching within those environments. Celebrates the lack of conformity in grading as a sign of a rich and nurturing environment for the development of writing…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Foreign Students, Grading

Greene, Brenda M. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Conducts a case study of the problem identification and resolution strategies of three basic writers. Finds that basic writers are capable of evaluating surface-level problems and rhetorical problems in both their own and peers' texts if instructors provide them with opportunities to do so. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation

Hindman, Jane E. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1993
Contends that evaluations of student writing come not from some transcendent realm but from the discursive practices by which teachers authorize themselves within a given community. Argues that basic writers need explicit knowledge of such practices, and proposes a language-centered curriculum to teach it. (HB)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Discourse Modes

Kroll, Barbara – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Discusses the implications of considering different writing components (lexical, syntactic, and rhetorical) separately, in an effort to avoid problems of writing evaluation. Proposes that instead of "balancing" these components, teachers should separate them in working to establish curricula for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. (MM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Biser, Eileen; Rubel, Linda; Toscano, Rose Marie – Journal of Basic Writing, 1998
Discusses use of "mediated texts" as a classroom practice which meets requirements of "accommodation" for alternative demonstrations of competency in academic writing. Defines mediated texts, describes case studies which use these texts with deaf students who are basic writers; and shows connection between this heuristic and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Deafness, English (Second Language)
Watkins-Goffman, Linda – 1989
In order to become empowered and autonomous writers, students need to learn self-evaluation techniques to help them revise their writing instead of simply editing it. Basic writers and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writers especially need concrete aids that can guide them, at least in the initial stages of learning, to write in a mode in…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Revision (Written Composition), Second Language Learning
Wambach, Cathrine; delMas, Robert – 1998
A study evaluated a new freshman writing course offered to students at the University of Minnesota who were underprepared for study at a major research university. In the fall of 1997 it was proposed that all freshmen be placed in for-credit, strengthened, basic writing courses rather than placing certain students in non-credit, pre-college-level…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College English, College Freshmen, Course Evaluation
Burley, Hansel; And Others – 1996
Proper placement of students into either remedial writing or Composition I can be crucial to their success in higher education. Using a database of nearly 6,000 students who entered an open admissions community college in Texas, the researchers attempted to discover the best predictor of student success in Composition I. For students who took a…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Grading

Reed, W. Michael; Vandett, Nancy M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Compares the quality and syntactic complexity of 2 types of essays written by 44 college freshmen in a basic writing course. Essays dealing with group-phenomenon events (intensification) had more words per clause, but received lower quality scores than essays dealing with individually experienced events (initiation). (PAA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Bers, Trudy H.; Smith, Kerry E. – Community College Review, 1990
Describes a study of the validity and reliability of a writing skills assessment test taken by 4,284 2-year college students in 1986-87. Assesses interrater reliability, influences of nonperformance factors (e.g., gender, native language, and form of test), predictive validity of test for future performance, and implications of findings. (DMM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Predictive Validity

Meyer, Margaret Dietz – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1997
Contends that student writing compositions and instructor feedback offer special benefits when rendered orally via audiocassette. Promotes a "reader-based" writing sensibility in students, who read their work onto cassette tape, and allows greater flexibility in grading and critiquing for instructors, who return the tape with detailed comments.…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Audiotape Recorders, Basic Writing, Developmental Studies Programs