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Download full textPeters, William H. – 1992
A study examined the effects of aesthetic, efferent, and aesthetic/efferent teaching approaches on 38 English secondary preservice teachers' responses to literature. Three classes received intensive instruction on L. M. Rosenblatt's concept of aesthetic and efferent stances through one semester. However, one class was introduced and responded to…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers
Rosaen, Cheryl L.; Roth, Kathleen J. – 1993
A study investigated what was possible in terms of student learning when a conceptual change model of teaching science and a writers' workshop model of teaching writing were used consistently across time. Similarities and contrasts in the curriculum, learning communities, and teachers' roles when the two instructional models were used (by two…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Crerand, Mary E. Lavin – 1994
A study investigated the following questions: (1) How does writing develop in a foreign language context? (2) What are the learners' perceptions of writing in a foreign language? (3) What is the influence of first language literacy skills on second language writing? (4) What is the influence of second language proficiency on second language…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, French, Higher Education
Feagans, Heather – Texas Reading Report, 1994
A second-grade teacher wanted to enable her students to look at several pieces of their own writing, pick the best piece, and write an explanation as to why it was chosen. She began by developing a series of probing questions that the students could ask themselves as they evaluated their own writing. So that students could fully understand the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Questioning Techniques
Rosaen, Cheryl L.; Lindquist, Barbara – 1993
Developed from a year-long collaboration between researchers and a fifth-grade teacher, this paper presents case study materials designed for use with prospective and experienced teachers interested in thinking and learning about students' writing development. Several kinds of information regarding the progress of "Billy" are included in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Higher Education
Sensenbaugh, Roger – 1993
This digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. The digest presents categories of material about WAC--advocacy, activities, recent research, implementing new programs, and faculty training--and discusses one or two pertinent sources for each…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Dobie, Ann B. – 1992
A semester-long study examined the needs and goals of adult students. Subjects, 22 adults over the age of 25 years, were selected to represent, as much as possible, a cross section of the older students likely to be found in freshman English courses at a large but not highly selective university. Data included questionnaires completed by the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Research, College English, Freshman Composition
Weidner, Heidemarie Z. – 1991
The examination of the journal (written in 1875) of a student of the Patterson Institute, a "female college" in Kentucky, reveals a young woman with a divided self--one part accepting her teacher's demands, the other undermining the daily writing assignment and the school's rules through acknowledged deception, sly subversion, mockery,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Journal Writing, Personal Writing, Secondary Education
Meagher, Eileen M. – 1993
A study examined the expectations of incoming University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshmen about an hour-long placement essay. Subjects, 96 randomly chosen students, responded to a series of 5 questions concerning what an essay is, what kinds of writing they had done, how they feel about writing tests, what topics they had written about in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Essays, High Schools, Higher Education
Steinke, Jocelyn – 1993
A study used protocol analysis to trace a group of specialized journalists' cognitive processing of information. Science writers were selected because they were hypothesized to be particularly sensitive to the needs of their audience and to rely more on audience knowledge when making decisions. Five science journalists (of about 25 contacted at…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Analysis, Educational Background, Learning Experience
Standards of Performance: Evaluating Grading Standards and Their Role in Student Revision Processes.
Crawford, Wayne – 1993
A study examined whether student-constructed grading criteria complicate or reduce teacher or programmatic standards and determined whether written criteria actually drive students' writing and revising processes. Published criteria for evaluating compositions in 22 college and university writing programs across the nation were analyzed. In terms…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Case Studies, College Sophomores, Grading
Pajares, M. Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – 1993
A study investigated the writing self-efficacy, writing outcome expectations, writing apprehension, personal self-efficacy, and writing performance of 30 undergraduate students throughout one semester. Results indicated support for social cognitive theory and prior findings that report a relationship between self-efficacy and performance. A…
Descriptors: Correlation, Higher Education, Models, Predictor Variables
DuCharme, Catherine C. – 1991
A qualitative study examined the role drawing plays in the writing processes of young children (ages five to nine), and how the role changes with the individual's growth as a writer. Sixty-seven children enrolled in a multiage classroom (K-3) were systematically observed to identify and describe various drawing functions in their writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
Black, Janet – 1993
A study investigated whether 10-grade English students would write more descriptively when their thinking was stimulated through viewing images, or hearing music, or both. Subjects, 49 students in 2 intact classrooms in a middle-class, suburban high school in the Jurupa School District, were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 groups that administered…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing, Grade 10
Teague, Deborah Coxwell – 1998
A study examined whether students actually used the composition processes they learned in their first-year college writing classroom when they leave the classroom. Subjects were 200 Florida State University students--a mixture of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors from a variety of majors during fall semester 1997. Subjects were asked to…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Retention (Psychology)
