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Peer reviewedEaston, Lois Brown – English Journal, 1982
Applies educational research on the composing process to the writing of junior high school students. Explains how tapes were used to create a new unit aimed at correcting student writing weaknesses. (JL)
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Junior High Schools, Research Utilization, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedCombs, Warren E.; Sitko, Barbara – English Journal, 1981
Reports of classroom research on the effectiveness of sentence combining as a teaching technique. Notes the value of in-class research. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, High Schools
Peer reviewedRansdell, D. R.; Glau, Gregory R. – English Journal, 1996
Reports on a survey of college freshmen concerning how their high school teachers prepared them or could have prepared them better for college writing expectations. Reviews results that suggest that those students who wrote the least scored the lowest in college placement exams. (TB)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Essays, High Schools
