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Benson, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Presents findings of a study comparing compositions by beginning writing and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students at a two-year college. Reports similarities in the groups' topic choices, topic sentence use, and expository development. Reveals that ESL students tended to write shorter papers containing more sentence level errors. Discusses…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Expository Writing

Taylor, Karl K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1986
Examines how fourth and fifth grade students write summaries of both expository and narrative prose and lists eight qualities possessed by successful summarizers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Narration
Bauer, Barbara Ann – 1981
To compare the relative reliable uses and cost effectiveness of the analytic, the holistic, and the primary trait scoring methods, an inquiry was conducted in which a group of raters scored a large number of secondary school students' essays according to each of the scoring methods. Raters were nine graduate students in English who were trained in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Expository Writing, Holistic Evaluation
Clark, Irene Lurkis – 1985
Noting that writers frequently use reading aloud to evaluate written drafts, two studies were conducted to determine the extent to which holistic scores assigned by readers to college freshman essays correlated with holistic scores assigned by listeners. One study used 39 narrative essays, the other used 39 expository essays. The results of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Gray, Stephanie; Keech, Catharine – 1980
An approach to teaching expository writing and research in support of that approach are presented in this book. The first section of the book discusses writing from given information, a technique by which teachers give students collections of nonverbal data (charts, graphs, maps, and other pictorial information) that the students must organize in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Grade 11
Jackson, Delores M. – 1996
Many educators are concerned with how writing should be taught, especially in the elementary grades. Many teachers are under the impression that when they have their students write simple sentences using vocabulary words and punctuation marks, they are teaching their students that this is writing. In traditionally taught classes, the elementary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 3
Reichert, Nancy L. – 1994
Acting as a team, a graduate research methods class at Florida State University studied a first-year imaginative writing course, "Writing from Life," designed to help students write autobiography, fiction, and poetry. In the course of this study, intriguing differences became apparent between the attitudes and approaches in this class…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Witte, Stephen P. – 1980
M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan have provided a system for analyzing the cohesive relations that enable a sequence of T-units to be considered a complete text. (A T-unit consists of a main clause and all its dependent clauses.) These concepts of cohesion proved effective in analyzing the differences between five "high" and five "low" quality essays…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis

Crew, Louie – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Compares the rhetorical strategies of 20 opening paragraphs from "Psychology Today" to those in 20 first paragraphs from student essays. Observes that professionals regularly begin exposition with narratives, indirection, and irony, while students begin with rhetorical questions, truisms, and muddled strategies. Concludes that students'…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Collier, Richard M. – 1983
A study compared written texts produced by hand, by typewriter, and by word processor for differences in improvement in creativity and writing skills. Subjects included six college students--two with high creative ability, two with average creative ability, and two with low or weak ability. During a training period, the subjects were required to…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Expository Writing
Means, Barbara; And Others – 1980
A study was designed (1) to test whether adult writing is superior to adult speech in terms of organization and content and (2) to assess college students' ability to discriminate between passages differing in quality. Written and spoken passages that compared and contrasted two entities were elicited from college students and adult professionals.…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing
Gregg, Noel – 1983
As a step toward developing appropriate instructional techniques to help learning disabled college students, mechanical errors were compared in the expository essays and controlled stimulus passages (rewrites) of 15 learning disabled, 15 normal, and 15 basic writers at the college level. Analysis of both types of writing samples showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Expository Writing

Lutz, Jean A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Uses text processing (computer) and pen and paper protocols to compare the revising process of professional writers and experienced writers (PhD students). Concludes tentatively that (1) professional and experienced writers do not differ in their approach; (2) the interaction between human and machine influences the writing process; and (3) that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Expository Writing

Peterson, Sarah E. – Computers in the Schools, 1993
Examines the effects of word processing on high school seniors' writing and revisions of essay assignments. Length of papers, the impact of topic on the results, the effect of handwriting papers after computer composition, comparison of writing methods over time, and effects of typing ability and computer experience are discussed. (Contains eight…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Expository Writing, Grade 12
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effects of syntactic differences between oral and written discourse on the reading comprehension of second and fifth grade students; (2) the effects of a sentence combining…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
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