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Parisi, Hope A. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1994
Demonstrates that students who attempt graphically to represent their own writing process increase their involvement and self-awareness while validating their new writing behaviors and come to understand their role in managing the unique complexities of their own composing process. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Illustrations, Metacognition

Moran, Mary Hurley – Journal of Basic Writing, 1997
Studies whether students who reread their drafts aloud as they revise compose essays that are stylistically superior to those of students who do not. Finds this makes a difference for students with adequate to proficient reading skills but not for poor readers. Suggests basic writing courses should focus on reading and style, besides principles of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Reading Improvement, Reading Writing Relationship, Writing Improvement

Agnew, Eleanor – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Studies how formerly weak writers manage to write adequately for their jobs. Concludes that the rhetorical, psychological, and social environment of the workplace fosters better writing in basic writers than the academic environment. Recommends writing across the curriculum for duplicating the workplace-writing content in college writing classes.…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Work Environment, Writing Across the Curriculum

Segall, Mary T. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Explains how faculty at Quinnipiac College reconceptualized developmental English and designed a new program that provides additional instructional time within the regular freshman English course. Finds that developmental students are better motivated and achieve growth in reading and writing commensurate with students who had a prior semester of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Program Development

Beaugrande, Robert de; Olson, Mar Jean – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Advocates a basic writing approach that assesses potential language competence as it develops both in speech and writing, and redefines the notion of "error." Presents a pilot project in which the use of speech is found to assist basic writers in producing writing that is improved in its length, fluency, involvement, concrete detail, and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods

Crafton, Robert E. – Computers and Composition, 1996
Notes that online writing environments can lead basic writers to focus on the instrumental nature of language and technology, construe writing as performance, and see revision as error correction. Explores computer use as an aid in the process of composition in a one-credit computer lab course. Finds that basic writers face significant…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Reagan, Sally Barr – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Uses a case study to illustrate the multitude of cultural and idiosyncratic factors which may influence the feelings and behaviors of basic writers at risk of failure. Suggests that rather than continually defining the basic writer, educators should begin to redefine and reexamine their roles and attitudes as teachers of basic writers. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, High Risk Students, Higher Education

Robinson, William S. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Argues that, to deal effectively with sentence errors of basic writers, it is crucial to distinguish between what should be left alone and what can be productively marked and how it should be marked. Proposes a taxonomy of four sources of errors (knowledge, dialect, process, and developmental errors) and seven ways to address them. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classification, Error Correction, Error Patterns
Davis, Wesley K. – 1996
A study examined the growth in basic writing and grammar skills of 14 developmental English students. The study determined whether a traditional rule-based, form-centered mode of instruction, combined with a limited writing-process approach, had any significant impact on overall writing quality and grammar skills. It used a quantitative,…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Basic Writing, Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction

Wolcott, Willa – Journal of Basic Writing, 1994
Presents a longitudinal study of six basic reading and writing students at the University of Florida that traces student progress. Demonstrates that several students experienced progress over a more than three-year span, although improvement was neither linear nor extensive. Identifies growth of metacognitive awareness among students. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes
Carle, Marlene V. – 1993
A study investigated whether exercises that teach and alert students to nonverbal communication aided them, particularly those students who needed more support in achieving academic success in written expression. Subjects were students in two classes of a basic composition course required in an electronic technician program. One class was given…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Writing, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Wynn, Evelyn S.; Cadet, Lorraine P. – 1996
This paper reviews the research on use of collaborative writing teaching methods at the postsecondary level. Following a brief summary of the theoretical framework of collaborative writing, the paper examines the research on the six features of collaborative writing most used in classrooms: disclosure, which encourages students to engage in deep…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cognitive Structures, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning