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Kintisch, Lenore S. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Reports on a four-year study of the process of journal writing in an elementary school. Assesses student behavior as well as actual writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies

Newman, Judith M. – Language Arts, 1983
Examines the early writing of a young child over the course of several months to illustrate the struggle with the writing process. Draws parallels between the child's writing progress and that of the author as she learned to be comfortable as a writer and suggests implications for the teaching of writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies

Newkirk, Thomas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Examines the structure of 100 pieces of nonnarrative writing composed by students in grades 1, 2, and 3. Analyzes the coherence in each of the pieces and the hierarchical ordering of information. Suggests the inadequacy of the term "expressive writing" to describe the initial writing done by students in the sample. (AEW)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Learning Strategies, Primary Education
Dobson, L. N. – 1983
A study examined the hypothesis that if young children are immersed in a social and psychological setting appropriate for language learning they can learn to write simply by writing. Placed in a supportive classroom environment, 24 first grade students were expected to communicate in writing in any way they could from their first day at school.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques