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Readable Research on Teaching (Booksearch).
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English Journal, 1990
Reviews five books of research on teaching, including teaching with a word processor, peer response groups, mastery teaching, and teaching adolescents. (RS)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Educational Research, Secondary Education, Teacher Behavior
An Inexpensive Alternative to Word Processing--FrEdWriter (Reading Technology).
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Starshine, Dorothy – Reading Teacher, 1990
Discusses the role that word processors play in whole language classrooms, and shares four advantages that "FrEdWriter" (a word-processing program) offers over commercial versions. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Style and Usage Software: Mentor not Judge.
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Smye, Randy – Computers and Composition, 1988
Shows how style and usage checkers can be used in writing exercises that encourage a recursive pattern of student revision. Looks at several instructional design ideas that can create "process-centered" revision software that appears heuristic, contextual, and interactive. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Writers's Workbench: A Useful Aid, but not a Cure-All.
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Day, John T. – Computers and Composition, 1988
Argues that the set of style, usage, and spelling check computer programs marketed as "Writer's Workbench" is an effective aid to good writing, giving users the opportunity to edit and revise text depending upon each individual user's purpose. Reports on a survey of teachers' and students' use of "Writer's Workbench" at St.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
Software Reviews. Programs Worth a Second Look.
Schneider, Roxanne; Eiser, Leslie – Classroom Computer Learning, 1989
Reviewed are three computer software packages for use in middle/high school classrooms. Included are "MacWrite II," a word-processing program for MacIntosh computers; "Super Story Tree," a word-processing program for Apple and IBM computers; and "Math Blaster Mystery," for IBM, Apple, and Tandy computers. (CW)
Descriptors: Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Junior High Schools
Six Directions for Computer Analysis of Student Writing.
Wresch, William – Computing Teacher, 1988
Discussion of programs for analyzing the writing of students using word processors focuses on six categories of available software that can help to improve students' writing skills: error checkers, reformatters, audience awareness programs (including reader's needs and readability formulas), student conferencing utilities, grading utilities, and…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Editing
Monsters and Make-Believe Plus (Software Reviews).
Casey, Jean – Writing Notebook, 1990
Reviews Monsters and Make-Believe Plus, a computer program which supports learners in their quest to become skilled language users. Finds it to be one of the most powerful software programs available to implement a whole language program. (MG)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
Research Windows.
Collis, Betty – Computing Teacher, 1988
Summarizes five studies related to computerized language education: (1) speech synthesizers and children's writing abilities; (2) comparison of Writing to Read program and traditional teaching; (3) evaluation of Writing to Read program; (4) deaf adolescents and sentence construction; and (5) student attitudes toward writing with computers vs.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Courseware, Deafness