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Muschla, Gary Robert – 1989
Designed to meet the needs of children of various age and ability levels, this book provides teachers of grades 4-9 with over 250 writing activities and reproducible worksheets for teaching students how to write effective compositions, essays, stories, poems, and more. Activities in the book focus on the various stages of the writing process,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Nonfiction, Poetry
Download full textSandman, John; Weiser, Michael – 1992
Writing autobiographies, in which students describe their experiences as writers, show that students already know a great deal about their strengths and weaknesses as writers and about the conditions they need to write successfully. Typical first assignments given to entering college students are often used to diagnose the ability level and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Educational Experience, Personal Narratives, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Mitchell, Felicia – 1992
Evaluative criteria implicit in written comments on student writing can embody a definition of text which leads students to see text as superficial and formal instead of deep and meaningful. Students develop their perceptions of professors' values from the cues they receive via comments. A major problem, especially among faculty from different…
Descriptors: Grading, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Student Evaluation
Evans, Peter J. A. – 1992
A study identified stages of student writing maturation across several grades and developed classroom resources to enhance the maturation of students. A total of 3,600 essays written by students in grades 4 and 6-12 attending urban and rural schools in eastern Ontario, Canada, were holistically scored. The original limited and quite specific…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Expository Writing, Fantasy, Foreign Countries
Focus in Change, 1991
Reflecting some of the emerging issues sustaining debate in secondary school literature instruction and writing instruction, this newsletter presents articles that discuss the impact of E. D. Hirsch's book "Cultural Literacy,""authentic discourse," and collaborative classroom research. Articles in the newsletter are:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Cultural Literacy, English Instruction
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1993
A study examined the issue of language correctness in Alberta's English 30 diploma examination papers written in January and June 1993 which received a score of "satisfactory" on matters of convention. A total of 160 papers (which received either a score of "satisfactory" on all scoring categories, scores of "limited"…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Dunn, Dana S. – 1993
At Moravian College, the Communication course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the writing process, designed to help freshmen develop strategies for solving problems at each stage of writing. The course is unique in that it is not meant to be taught exclusively by members of the English department and is taught in close alliance with…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Psychology
McDaniel, Ernest – 1991
Some theoretical background is presented for the proposition that thinking processes can be measured by determining the levels of cognitive complexity apparent in written interpretations of complex situations. The rationale for scoring interpretations is presented, and some illustrative data are discussed. The approach to measurement of thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN. – 1991
Applicable to all levels of education, the eight digests and four FAST (Focused Access to Selected Topics) bibliographies included in this special collection focus on testing and assessment in the fields of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The material in this special collection is designed for use by teachers, students, administrators,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Dialog Journals, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Moberg, Virgil B. – 1991
Many universities rely on multiple choice or true/false tests to admit students to mass communication programs. The high stakes that prospective majors face suggest that there is an urgent need for departments to rethink their assumptions about entrance testing, as a narrow conception of scholastic ability can undermine any attempt to "weed…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Journalism Education, Majors (Students)
Long, Russell C. – 1982
In a study of writing perceptions held by college faculty in disciplines other than English, 81 faculty members indicated whether each of 67 student writing errors bothered them a great deal, a little, or not at all. Results showed that teachers did not strongly object to errors apparently produced by carelessness or by ignorance of finer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Content Area Writing, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Kennedy, George E. – 1983
One hundred college remedial writing students participated in a study designed to (1) demonstrate some of the differences between speaking and writing in a controlled situation; (2) test the hypothesis that the writing of subjects who have spoken about a particular topic will be qualitatively superior to the writing of those who have not; and (3)…
Descriptors: College Students, Holistic Evaluation, Remedial Instruction, Sentence Structure
Feinberg, Susan – 1983
To determine if using visual patterns can help technically oriented people create coherent papers, 97 students enrolled in a beginning composition class were given five hours of instruction in the use of the "hub and spokes" (central idea supported by examples), "S-curve" (pro-con), and pyramid (inductive or deductive) formats. Holistic…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing
McLean, James I. – 1984
Concerned with improving text readability in the content areas, this report first draws upon Linda Flower's writing steps and strategies in its description of writing as moving from planning to generating ideas in words, designing for a reader, and editing for effectiveness. It also presents nine more precise steps in the writing process along…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Content Area Writing, Heuristics, Readability
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1989
This educator's guide to the California Assessment Program's English-Language Arts test describes what California's new reading and editing tests do and do not measure. The guide states that each test form consists of one reading passage from literature, science, or history-social science followed by a variety of questions on word meaning and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Editing, English, Grade 12
