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Hurd, Rhynette N. – 1985
One hundred seventy-nine students enrolled in a first-year college level composition course were subjects in a study of the effects of four levels of audience specification on writing anxiety, performance, and sensitivity to audience. Subjects completed the Writing Apprehension Test, which determined levels of writing apprehension, and then…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Performance Factors

Neilsen, Allan R. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Stresses the importance of having teachers of writing participate in writing activities at inservice meetings. (DF)
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Participation, Teacher Workshops, Writing Apprehension
Turewicz, Evelyn – 1983
A study documenting and describing dialogue journal writing in a group of nine tenth graders in an Australian secondary school English class is reported. The overall purpose was to understand the nature of dialogue journal writing and to assess its value as a suitable mode of encouraging writing among secondary students. Specific aspects of…
Descriptors: Diaries, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Davenport, Ann – Australian Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes the power of adult writing groups to stimulate learning and encourage language development, personal development, and writing skill development. (CRH)
Descriptors: Adults, Individual Development, Language Acquisition, Nontraditional Students
Luckner, John L. – ACEHI Journal, 1989
The paper presents a model for teaching written language to hearing impaired students on which curriculum can be based. In addition, activities, techniques, and resources are suggested that can be used when implementing the writing program. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Hearing Impairments, Peer Teaching
Diller, Jannelle; And Others – 1996
One of a series of workplace education modules, this module includes activities and exercises for improving writing skills in the workplace. First, discussions of writing in the workplace are presented, highlighting tips for effective instruction, and of issues related to grading papers, including a sample evaluation form. Next, the assessment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Inplant Programs
Word, Miriam F. – 1990
In 1989, a project was undertaken to improve the student success rate in a writing course (Communications I) at a Florida multi-campus institution. Of the 489 students who had taken the course, 18% were unsuccessful in completing it in one semester. Three observed student behaviors which contributed to poor writing performance were an inability to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Surveys, Two Year Colleges
Rutledge, George E. – 1983
Writing is an important tool in teaching skills to adult basic education (ABE) students. To be a successful teacher of writing, teachers must be successful writers. They must be aware of the writing process and willing to use it daily in their own lives in order to convey its importance and its usefulness to their students. One method of teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Conferences
Lally, Tim D. P.; And Others – 1983
Once its source has been identified using the multidimensional model developed by D. W. Stacks, R. W. Boozer, and T. D. P. Lally, writing apprehension, especially among business writing students, can be treated in the classroom with specific pedagogical techniques. Emphasizing the writing process rather than the product--stressing peer and teacher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Prewriting, Sentence Combining
Hurlow, Marcia – 1983
When students do not write well in stressful situations, traditional instruction such as grammar exercises, sentence combining, and imitation of sentences will not be especially useful. Students are not often aware of their linguistic insecurity or of how insecurity affects language usage. The writing lab, however, creates an ideal setting for…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Peer Evaluation
Song, Minjong – 1998
An experimental study compared the effects of controlled and free writing exercises and of evaluative vs. communicative feedback on the writing quality and apprehension of Korean college students of English as a foreign language (EFL). Students in two sections of a freshman reading course wrote dialogue journals as practice in free writing, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 37 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) composing strategies used by college freshmen; (2) three methods of assessment of writing ability; (3) one child's growth in writing; (4) the relationship…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Lang, Frederick K. – 1985
The film, "Telling an Old Story" (part of the series "Writers Writing" that was coproduced by WNET and Learning Designs and televised by WNET in 1985), was integrated into college developmental writing classes and proved to be an effective strategy for the improvement of students' writing skills. The film was presented with the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Creative Teaching