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Peer reviewedFrank, Laura A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1992
Explores fifth graders' audience awareness when they compose and revise an original text for two audiences (a good third grade reader and an experienced adult reader) in a realistic transactional writing task. Finds that they successfully revised texts to address expectations of both audiences but were more successful for the third grade readers.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Revision (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedBaker, Elizabeth A.; Rozendal, Mary S.; Whitenack, Joy W. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2000
Examines audience awareness in a 5-month naturalistic study of a fourth-grade classroom infused with technology and which valued collaboration and inquiry. Finds this classroom offered such pervasive opportunities for interaction between authors and classmates that it was difficult to distinguish between author and audience. Examines impact of…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCrowhurst, Marion – English Education, 1991
Investigates the effects of letter writing on the writing of sixth graders. Describes the process of establishing a communicative relationship between the writer and the audience. Finds that students' writing improved in the following areas: length, syntax, paragraphing, openings and closings, questions, topics, and borrowed features. (PRA)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Download full textMcCarthey, Sarah J. – 1993
This paper uses two case studies to explore the risk and opportunities of writing from students' personal experiences. Anthony, a high-achieving, Hispanic fifth-grader, and Anita, a low-achieving, African-American sixth-grader, participated in a writing workshop in which students kept notebooks of their personal experiences and reflections. The…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
PDF pending restorationEnsio, Tobi C.; Boxeth, Krystal R. – 2000
The purpose of this study is to investigate how publishing students' writing in the community affects their attitudes toward writing. Participants were 19 sixth-grade language arts students from an urban upper elementary school. Results from student attitude surveys indicate that using publishing is an effective method of connecting students to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedRaphael, Taffy E.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1989
Examines fifth- and sixth-grade students' metacognitive knowledge about the processes of writing narrative and expository texts. Finds that creating a communicative context enhances students' awareness of audience and purpose, as well as their understanding of different aspects of the writing process. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cognitive Ability, Expository Writing, Grade 5
Crowhurst, Marion – 1990
This study was conducted to determine some of the effects of dyadic writing interactions on the writing of sixth graders, and specifically, to describe the effects of corresponding with pen pals who were students in a language arts methods course during their professional teacher education year. Twenty-seven sixth-grade students attended a school…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, College School Cooperation, Grade 6
Cooperative Learning and Process Writing Experiences to Improve the Writing of Fifth Grade Students.
Donato, Marjorie – 1990
A course of study was researched, designed, and implemented to improve the writing of fifth-grade students. Objectives of the program were to develop more positive feelings about writing while increasing the quantity, quality, and variety of writing. Cooperative learning and process writing was discussed with the participants, their parents, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5
