Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Interviews | 5 |
Writing Exercises | 5 |
Writing Skills | 5 |
Language Usage | 2 |
Observation | 2 |
Qualitative Research | 2 |
Writing (Composition) | 2 |
Writing Instruction | 2 |
Academic Discourse | 1 |
Achievement Tests | 1 |
Adult Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Crabbe, Katharyn | 1 |
Davenport, Pam | 1 |
Grant, Geremy | 1 |
Hale, Helena | 1 |
Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian | 1 |
Perin, Dolores | 1 |
Rankin, Sherry L. | 1 |
Raufman, Julia | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Research | 2 |
Tests/Questionnaires | 2 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 2 |
Postsecondary Education | 2 |
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Nelson Denny Reading Tests | 1 |
Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Perin, Dolores; Grant, Geremy; Raufman, Julia; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2017
Retrospective reports gathered from developmental education students as part of a learning assessment revealed the use of several strategies for writing a summary based on a text. Participants were selected for the study based on the richness and variety of their verbal descriptions of task performance in structured, individualized interviews.…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Writing Achievement, Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction
Rankin, Sherry L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The language shortcuts used in text messages are becoming evident in students' academic writing assignments. This qualitative study sought to determine if the use of the shortcuts has an adverse impact on developmental students' spelling and grammar skills. This research was based on the constructivist theory, which rationalizes that students use…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Writing Assignments, Writing Exercises, Program Effectiveness

Davenport, Pam – English Journal, 1983
Describes how a teacher incorporated her own experience of interviewing into an assignment that required her students to conduct interviews about the importance of writing skills. (JL)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Interviews, Student Research
What's Happening in Freshman Composition in the California Two-Year College: Forty-Eight Interviews.
Hale, Helena – 1980
The results of interviews conducted with 48 freshman writing/composition teachers in 11 two-year colleges in California are summarized in this report. After brief descriptive comments introducing each interview topic, responses are summarized by college to the following questions: (1) What placement procedures are used to assign students to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Interviews
Crabbe, Katharyn – 1976
The study examined 41 students (24 male, 17 female) in a beginning writing course for adults. Data were collected by (1) taping four workshop sessions in which all students participated in small groups, (2) interviewing all the students, and (3) observing four students writing in the classroom. The adult writers composed in two models: the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Beginning Writing, Cognitive Processes