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Freedman, Aviva – 1987
As a by-product of a study concerning how university level writers develop new genres of discourse, a study was undertaken to examine what factors or dimensions affect the composing process of university writers. Six undergraduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa participated, making available to researchers information about how they…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Heuristics, Higher Education
Download full textFlower, Linda – 1987
Second in the series "Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process," this report looks at the different ways students represent reading-to-write tasks to themselves, analyzes the resulting divergence in their writing goals and strategies, and recommends teaching task representation as an interpretive process that continues…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) writing performance and its relationship to the writing attitudes, topic knowledge, and writing goals of college freshmen; (2) representational semantics; (3)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1982
A variety of process-oriented writing instruction strategies are presented in this focused journal issue. Article titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Central Reference to the Rescue" (Rod Kessler); (2)"Brainstorming: A Heuristic that Works" (Frank C. Cronin); (3) "Brainstorming: A Valuable Supplemental Technique for…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Brainstorming, Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis
Leavitt, Tamara Day – 1987
Integrating reading and writing at the primary level is important because writing and then reading back what has been written gives purpose to both, and the sense of overall purpose enhances reading while the sense of audience enhances writing. Another reason for starting this integration with beginning students is that writing creates a purpose…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Brainstorming, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics including the following: (1) the effects of a heuristic prewriting model on eleventh-grade students; (2) a writing-across-the-curriculum program at a small liberal arts university; (3) a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes
