Much research has investigated the role of planning time in second language writing; however, the results show that there are inconsistent findings about the effects of planning time conditions on the complexity of the EFL learners' textual output. The current study attempted to consider the differential effects of planning time conditions in…

Proper placement of students into either remedial writing or Composition I can be crucial to their success in higher education. Using a database of nearly 6,000 students who entered an open admissions community college in Texas, the researchers attempted to discover the best predictor of student success in Composition I. For students who took a…

A study examined whether or not the composition faculty at the University of Northern Iowa agreed on criteria for evaluating student writing and to what extent they would give similar scores even if their criteria did not agree. Using 15 sample student papers written for the Writing Competency Examination (WCE), the scores given by current writing…