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McAndrew, Donald A. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Examines the relationship between handwriting speed and the syntactic complexity of the finished piece of writing. Reports that findings support previous research that describes differences in syntax of basic and traditional writers. Concludes that writing teachers should encourage college students to write rapidly as they draft their pieces. (MM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Handwriting, Higher Education, Writing Processes
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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
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Keithley, Zoe – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Presents the results of a questionnaire which asked students to distinguish the most helpful instructional factors and activities aiding their writing progress. Concludes that the student's voice is his/her most accessible tool for progress, that acceptance of the student's voice is crucial, and that the speaking-writing connection is the most…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Zeni, Jane; Thomas, Joan Krater – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Compares White and African-American basic writers' texts produced during districtwide holistic writing assessments. Shows that White basic writers differ little from African-American basic writers, although African-Americans tend to use a stronger personal voice and drop standard word ending. Concludes that dialect is not the key issue. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Secondary Education
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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
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Wallace, David L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1996
Examines the extent to which asking 20 entry-level and 19 basic-level college writing students to articulate their initial intentions for writing facilitated the identification of 3 kinds of instructional problems students face in moving from intentions to texts. Suggests that students with useful initial intentions write more effective texts than…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Educational Objectives
Batschelet, Margaret; Woodson, Linda – 1991
An interim study measured changes in attitudes towards writing and the writing process among basic writing students taught in an electronic classroom (consisting of 25 networked computers). Students in six sections of basic writing which used the electronic classroom for at least 50% of their classroom time, and six control sections which did not…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Higher Education
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Cross, Geoffrey – Computers and Composition, 1990
Assesses how three basic writers adapted word processing to their writing. Finds that basic writers who were given little guidance in integrating the computer into their composing processes generated little material on the screen and in other ways made far less than full use of the word processor. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Remedial Programs
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Greenleaf, Cynthia – Written Communication, 1994
Describes the integration of computers into the writing practices of a remedial English class in an urban high school. Analyzes the year-long written work of six students in the class. Concludes that the teacher's structuring of instruction had the greatest impact on both student writing and the ways computers entered into that writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, English Instruction
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
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Reed, W. Michael; Vandett, Nancy M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Compares the quality and syntactic complexity of 2 types of essays written by 44 college freshmen in a basic writing course. Essays dealing with group-phenomenon events (intensification) had more words per clause, but received lower quality scores than essays dealing with individually experienced events (initiation). (PAA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis