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DeGroff, Linda-Jo Caple – 1986
A study examined the influence of prior knowledge on the quality of responses in three process-approach tasks: writing, conferencing, and revising. Subjects, 20 high-knowledge and 20 low-knowledge fourth grade students, wrote stories about a baseball game. Propositional text bases of first and second drafts were analyzed according to six…
Descriptors: Baseball, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedDavis, Susan J.; Winek, Janice – Journal of Reading, 1989
Reviews how background knowledge fits into a model of the expository writing process. Describes a project involving gifted seventh-grade students who increased their background knowledge about their chosen research paper topics in order to overcome some of the difficulty of expository writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Expository Writing, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
