Compares the traditional method of composition grading, marginal comments, with a more recent technique, comments on cassette tape. (HOD)

Describes a study of students' anxiety levels in the writing classroom. Results indicated a significant rise in anxiety level for "writing papers for grades," and a marked fear of failing a test. (HTH)

Reports on a study of eight corporations to assess the nature of writing done on the job, and how important writing ability was to the employee's career. Results indicated that communication ability was important to their jobs, but most employees loathed writing and considered quality writing beyond their grasp. (HTH)

Offers resources on technical writing that were published in 1980. Arranges the citations under 12 categories: bibliographies, books, reviews, and articles on theory and philosophy; pedagogy; writing technical articles and reports; research; technical writing and the computer; graphic/visual aids; correspondence; technical speech; and designing…

Offers a descriptive analysis of the changes in 14 classroom teachers who became writing researchers in their classrooms. (RL)

Reviews research and concludes that many studies support the use of various types of writing to help students develop their reading skills. (AEA)

Differentiates the two concepts of cohesion and coherence. Points out the differences between highly-rated and lower-rated essays by the techniques the writers used to achieve cohesion. Offers references on text linguistics and on European writings about discourse. (RL)

Describes two experiments designed to test the effects of self-management strategies on journal writing by beginning college writers. (HOD)

Follows changes in children's writing from the first through fourth grade, presenting case study data that show how children's writing shifts from play to craft. (GT)

Shows how the case study approach was used to examine the writing processes of six sixth-grade students. (RL)

Reports on a survey of 245 Australian high school students, who wrote about what they liked and disliked about their writing experiences. Notes the implications these results have for teaching writing. (RL)

Explores questions of concern for writing research in the areas of context in writing and the teaching of writing. Discusses some research designs and procedures. (HTH)

Interviews with 25 people whose jobs require varying amounts of writing (and writing skill) provide at least beginning support for much of the research in composing, especially about the importance of purpose, audience, and the reliability of writing process models. (RL)

This study examined whether the use of complex headed nominal structures resulted in a higher qualitative rating of a passage than the use of simple headed nominal structures and whether the use of more mature vocabulary resulted in a higher qualitative rating of a passage than the use of simple vocabulary. (HOD)

A 1979 analysis of student expository writing showed that holistic quality scores awarded by teacher-raters were influenced to a greater extent by essay length and freedom from spelling errors. A replication of that investigation using a sample of students' narrative writing produced the same findings. (HOD)