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Peer reviewedCase, Donald – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Based on interviews with university faculty, describes the impact of word processing upon their writing habits. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Higher Education, Influences, Professors
Download full textHogge, Joan Ellet – 1985
Acknowledging that ordering, spatial orientation, and synthesis are important properties in achieving clarity in writing, a study investigated the biological influences on students' writing processes and ways to help writers produce more coherent written products. Subjects, two males and four females ranging in age from 19 to 40, were tested using…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Coherence
Flinn, Jane Zeni – 1986
Using J. Dewey's "reconstruction of experience" concept of revision, a study employed ethnographic methods to investigate the effects of computer assisted writing instruction on students' revising processes. Primary subjects, eight sixth-graders, completed a structured revision task on their compositions, with varying degrees of computer…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 6
