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Download full textCrowe, Chris – 1992
By looking for patterns of errors in the research papers of Asian students, educators can uncover pedagogical strategies to help students avoid repeating such errors. While a good deal of research has identified a number of sentence-level problems which are typical of Asian students writing in English, little attempt has been made to consider the…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Students
Moragne e Silva, Michele – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1988
The questions of if and how writing in a second language is the same as writing in the first were investigated in a review of the literature. After a review of research in first language (L1) composing since Emig's 1971 "composing aloud" study, research in second language (L2) composing is also examined. Studies on the relationship between L1 and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Walsh, S. M. – 1992
A study investigated whether some level of writing apprehension or some expressed attitude toward writing might result in better essay scores. Subjects, 255 freshmen composition students at two campuses of the California State University system, were administered instruments designed to comparatively measure the quality of students' writing, gauge…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis
Campbell, Elizabeth Humphreys – 1993
An ethnographic study investigated conversations during planning meetings and placement rating sessions for selecting and rating freshman composition placement exams. Planning meetings involved the administrative coordinator and two assistants selecting model essays, discussing the rubric, and confirming the final plans for the rating session.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Baker, William – 1999
The data gathered for this study supported the hypothesis that first grade students can revise and edit original writing projects without experiencing any significant loss in motivation. This hypothesis was confirmed after the students had finished writing and revising three original stories while utilizing three separate revision strategies. The…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Spaulding, Cheryl L.; Lake, Daniel – 1991
This study investigated the effects of having student writers use a set of networked computers to assist them in their writing lessons. Subjects were 15 students who were designated by their school district as remedial writers because they did not pass a writing competency test in their freshman year. For 10 weeks students participated in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning
Thompson, Ronald W.; And Others – 1991
A study investigated a holistic approach to the assessment of students' writing skills in a high school that is part of a residential treatment program for adolescents. High school students were asked to produce spontaneous writing samples in the fall and spring of the 1990-91 school year. The students were asked to write about someone they…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, High Schools, Holistic Approach, Holistic Evaluation
Rosaen, Cheryl L.; Lindquist, Barbara – 1992
The research reported in this paper is a case study of one student's learning in a writers' workshop where two teacher-researchers were developing new curriculum and instructional practices. The case study was developed out of a larger qualitative study in which 47 fifth-grade students' growth as writers was studied over a 1-year period as they…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Longitudinal Studies
Rogers, Priscilla S. – 1993
To address the need for writing assessment tools, two analytic measures for evaluating managerial writing were used: the Analysis of Argument Measure based on Toulmin's (1958) elements of an argument, and the Persuasive Adaptiveness Measure, which draws on the Delia, Kline, and Burleson (1979) ranking system for scoring the degree of social…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Organizational Communication, Persuasive Discourse
Elliott, Alison – 1992
The development of narrative competence is an important part of the English curriculum in the early secondary school years. A study examined how four seventh-grade girls (two novice and two expert writers) responded to computer-based metacognitive guidance in the form of procedural facilitations. The facilitations were designed to assist the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Thacker, Peter R. – 1991
Intended to gain information about students who have difficulty organizing text when they write, a study probed students' ability to recognize and understand varying degrees of text organization while reading. Ninety ninth-grade students, divided equally into groups of good readers/good writers, good readers/poor writers, and poor readers/poor…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 9, High School Students, High Schools
Hill, Charles A. – 1992
A study examined the influence of two different writing tasks on the ways in which students evaluate arguments on one controversial issue. Subjects, 20 first-year college students, evaluated 2 argumentative articles on the issue of drug legalization. Subjects rated the strength of the argument of each paragraph as they read. Ten of the subjects…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Wyatt-Brown, Anne – 1992
Recent writing theorists have recommended the use of collaboration and workshop techniques in writing classrooms, and the clinical experience of Donald C. Winnicott lies at the heart of this current thinking about collaborative classrooms. Winnicott's observations of mothers and infants produced a respect for families and a skepticism about the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational History, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Hanson, Margo – 1994
A teacher, after learning about emergent writing in an inservice teacher education course and noticing various levels of writing in her 16 kindergarten and first-grade children, decided to involve the parents of her students in a similar learning process. A 4-week project involving dialogue journals ensued. Written questioning techniques developed…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dialog Journals, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
Bryson, Eileen – 1994
A first-grade teacher's classroom investigations support earlier research findings that when dramatic play is presented in a thematic context and related literacy props are provided, the children will use literacy behavior as part of their play. The teacher's research also indicated that adult intervention, guidance, and modeling of literacy…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Dramatic Play
