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Download full textSpaulding, 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
Ollila, L.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated whether computers would enable students to develop individual working writing environments. The programs that the fourth-grade students used were Hypercard, Clip Art, and MacWrite. Students worked with each of the programs and talked about what they were thinking while using the computer. A constant flow of teachers, staff,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Networks, Creative Writing, Grade 4
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
