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Peer reviewedSlattery, Patrick J.; Kowalski, Rosemary – Computers and Composition, 1998
Suggests that when first-year students composed on screen, they developed a tendency to expand their writing processes; and that when upper-level students did, they tended to collapse their processes. Suggests that first-year and upper-level students interacting with a computer can learn and adopt different types of writing strategies. (SR)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Juniors, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHarris, Jeanette – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Reports on a small pilot study that investigated the effect of word processing on the revision of six college freshmen. The results suggested that word processing did not encourage students to revise more extensively. (HOD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Teichman, Milton; Poris, Marilyn – 1988
To learn more about the initial effects of word processing on essay-writing performance and on writing apprehension, eight English instructors at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, conducted a one-semester controlled experiment with freshmen in eight randomly selected college writing classes. Eighty students wrote essays using terminals…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Hawisher, Gail E. – 1986
A study explored the effects of word processing on the revision strategies of 20 advanced college freshmen enrolled in a required writing course. Subjects were divided into two groups of 10, each of which alternately wrote a series of four essays on and off the computer. For each essay students submitted three drafts, which were analyzed for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Analysis
Brown, Jane L. – 1985
Designing a curriculum to introduce freshman composition students to computer assisted composition involves the cooperation of the composition instructor and the writing center director. One college has developed such a curriculum using the "Milliken Word Processor" (Milliken Publishing Company), a simple program with a variety of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College English, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textNancarrow, Paula Reed – 1982
In integrating word processors into the structure of a freshman writing class, the instructor has two alternatives: to teach the course specifically as a word processing course, or to offer a word processing option to students on a volunteer basis, either in substitution for some other activity or as extra credit. The first method is good if one…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Design, Educational Equipment
Sloane, Sarah – 1987
A case study examined the writing problems of Jay, a freshman composition student at the University of Massachusetts, to determine how teachers should handle students whose composing styles are not suited to writing with word processors. Interviews, classroom observation, and careful analyses of Jay's essays in progress and logsheets were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Freshman Composition
