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Heaberlin, Hal – Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 1986
Use of the casebook--selected magazine articles on a given subject, copied, stapled and given to each student--generates enthusiasm and improves the quality of high school sophomore research papers. The casebook approach ensures that no student is left behind in the topic selection or information gathering stages, and the teacher's familiarity…
Descriptors: Grade 10, High Schools, Research Methodology, Research Papers (Students)
Teichman, Milton; Poris, Marilyn – 1985
To learn more about the impact of word processing on the writing of college freshmen, a 2-year study involving 320 students of average writing ability investigated whether (1) students using word processors write significantly better than those who do not; (2) manipulating and improving sentences on a screen affects students' awareness of grammar,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Guerrero, Barry J.; Robison, Ruth E. – 1986
A study was conducted by the Student Development Center of the University of Hawaii at Hilo to develop a writing placement procedure in a community college setting which would be practical, reliable, and valid. The key to this procedure was an English composition placement device that could help readers rate, holistically, writing samples written…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
Shapiro, Nancy S. – 1986
A research project investigated the relationship between cognitive development in college students and their rhetorical maturity. Viewing the problem of audience in composition instruction in terms of cognitive development reveals that it may not be enough to tell students that they must consider audience if they do not have the cognitive maturity…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Cognitive Development, College Students, Developmental Stages
Donlan, Dan; And Others – 1984
A study investigated the effect of ambiguity on the level of writing apprehension of English teachers and whether apprehension varied according to mode of discourse. Subjects, 28 English language arts teachers, were invited to participate in a 5-week summer writing workshop, for which they received university credit and stipends. Participants were…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Workshops
Stroble, Elizabeth J. – 1988
The similarities and differences in the responses student writers received from peer groups communicating face-to-face and by electronic mail were examined in this study. Subjects were 20 English/language arts teacher education students at the University of Virginia, who were divided into four groups with each group randomized to a treatment order…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Communication Skills, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
Madigan, R. J.; And Others – 1987
In an attempt to contribute to the development of students' writing skills while helping them master basic psychology, a writing component was designed for a medium sized introductory psychology course. Its purpose was to aid in the mastery of course material and to contribute to the development of students' skill in written expression. In the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Essay Tests, Essays, Expository Writing
Necci, Catherine – 1988
Research of evaluation techniques shows that assessment of student achievement in art education is a neglected and undeveloped area of curriculum. This thesis reviews the reasons for curriculum reform, examines the need for evaluation tools in art education, reports current trends toward improving evaluation of student achievement in art…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Education, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students
Rucker, Gary H. – 1977
Intended for teachers of elementary and secondary school writing, this paper describes the Regular Writing Practice (RWP) program, which combines the philosophical and pedagogical bases of Lyman Hunt's Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading program with the instructional methodology of creative writing and composition. The first portion of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts, Program Content
Church, Elizabeth; Bereiter, Carl – 1984
A study assessed the ability of 20 eleventh grade students to recognize particular stylistic features when reading and then to use such features in their writing. Half the subjects were given a model paragraph from an Edgar Allen Poe story, without having the story identified for them, while the other half received only a verbal summary of the…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High Schools, Language Styles, Literary Genres
Foster, Dan – 1984
Composition theory accounts of coherence have tended to look at relationships within the text rather than at those between the text and the real world. In fact, empirical evidence suggests that the relationships between the text and the real world may be just as important for coherence. Forty-eight short papers were selected at random from those…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Boiarsky, Carolyn – 1983
An effective model for analyzing revision processes in writing needs to synthesize what research has shown about the process, the strategies involved, and what is known about students' revision strategies. Development of such a model also requires recognizing that (1) a relationship exists between reading and writing in the revision process, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Models
Hull, Glynda A. – 1984
To determine how writers who differ in editing performance respond to operationally defined categories of errors in different kinds of written texts, a study asked novice and expert editors to correct and comment upon three kinds of error (consulting, intuiting, and comprehending) in two tasks (a self-written essay and three essays written by…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Editing, Error Patterns
Langer, Judith A. – 1983
A study examined the effect of topic-specific background knowledge on the general quality and local coherence of student writing. Ninety-seven tenth grade students were assigned two writing tasks on specific topics at two points during a semester. J. Langer's measure of topic-specific knowledge was administered prior to each writing task. Each…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Coherence, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10
Kiefer, Kathleen E. – 1983
The writing test at Colorado State University determines which students move from basic composition into the college composition course. Initially, all incoming students take a placement test similar to the holistically scored writing tests administered by the Educational Testing Service. This placement test, along with other information, provides…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
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