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Hall, Susan; Hall, Palmer – 1991
Computer technology such as telecommunications software and electronic mail allowed students in advanced writing courses at Incarnate Word College and St. Mary's University in Texas to exchange comments about their papers. The intention of the writing teachers was to emphasize the role that invention and planning play in writing, to highlight the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Higher Education

Barclay, Dean – Computers and Composition, 1995
Describes the electronic network for interaction (ENFI) used by the author's writing classes and offers a brief example of "the conversation that it has helped student negotiate." Concludes that student discussions mediated by ENFI can enrich writing and literature classes. Presents evidence of how a specific sample of computer-mediated…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Spaulding, Cheryl L.; Lake, Daniel – 1991
This study investigated the effects of having student writers use a set of networked computers to assist them in their writing lessons. Subjects were 15 students who were designated by their school district as remedial writers because they did not pass a writing competency test in their freshman year. For 10 weeks students participated in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning

Irvin, L. Lennie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Argues that networked classrooms offer a number of opportunities for effective writing instruction. Argues that shared discourse in the networked-computer classroom has three levels forming a continuum of interactivity: students sending messages "at,""to," and "between" each other. Offers classroom examples of each level of discourse. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Discourse Analysis

Robbins, Bruce; Fischer, Kris – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Describes a project in which students in a seventh-grade English class were paired with university students in an English methods class, sharing weekly writing and responses via a computer network. Discusses how the project enhanced the teaching and learning opportunities for both sets of students. (SR)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, English Teacher Education

Howard, Rebecca Moore – Computers and Composition, 1996
Argues that, for a successful pedagogy of online portfolios, teachers should set up the computer network before the term begins; guide students to teach themselves how to use the system; explain the portfolio system at the beginning of the term; prompt revision even on "satisfactory" submissions; accept revisions only from…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Networks, Electronic Text, Higher Education
Fey, Marion Harris – 1993
Part of a larger ethnographic study, this investigation focused on the literacy development of a college student as he participated in the virtual culture of a computer-networked writing classroom where all instruction and communication occurred through the computer. The student was a member of one of two classes of adult students, ranging in age…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail
Meyers, Laura F. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1992
Describes a research project in which elementary students with learning disabilities participate in both individual and cooperative computer-enhanced writing sessions, using three types of topics: free choice, literature based, and fantasy based. Finds the computer-enhanced whole-language writing sessions more instructionally effective than the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Computers, Elementary Education
Willett-Smith, Stephanie – 1993
The motivational value of Virginia's Public Education Network (VA PEN), specifically the Thomas Jefferson On-line discussion group, is examined in this study. The instructional value of the network with respect to student motivation in fourth grade students of varied ability was gauged through observation of actual hands-on network experience,…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Elementary School Students
Norris, Dolores J. – 1990
A writing program was developed and implemented, using available technology, to increase the quality and the quantity of written communication of three heterogeneously grouped classes of fifth graders. The students learned to use the word processor, Magic Slate II, for process writing assignments. A modem, Supra Modem 2400, and Proterm software…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Grade 5