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Weltzien, O. Alan – 1986
Most freshman composition textbooks promote one discourse structure, usually stressing early placement of the points of an essay. This can lock rapidly changing writers into composing according to only one format. In addition, adhering to a prescribed structure rather than focusing on meaning too often causes structure--not meaning--to control the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
Ballard, Ronald L. – 1986
A model exit examination for a community college English composition course is presented, along with a discussion of the evaluation criteria used and the content areas assessed by the examination. First, methods of objectively evaluating written examinations are discussed, and analytical scoring methods are contrasted with the holistic scoring…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Testing, English Instruction, Essay Tests
Saunders, Martha A. – 1986
Although student writers will accept evaluation more readily from their peers than from their instructors, beginning writers in particular hesitate to offer suggestions to another writer because they do not want to hurt their fellow students' feelings, and because they do not feel they know enough to evaluate someone else's work. The collaborative…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Participative Decision Making, Peer Evaluation
Lamb, Hilary – 1987
Students in New Zealand and several other countries were tested in writing skills near the end of their formal (secondary) education, as part of the International Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) tests. Among the categories tested were functional letter writing and narrative, persuasive, and reflective essay writing. New Zealand student…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Essays, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries
Download full textBocchi, Joseph S. – 1985
Organizational stratification and writers' attitudes played an important part in the rejection of a proposed editorial review program at a university computing center. A peer review board, which consisted of four composition instructors, was established by the center director, in cooperation with a composition teacher consultant, to ensure the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Biggs, John B. – 1988
Studies of text comprehension have suggested that readers focus on different levels of ideational unit while reading, thereby affecting the quality of their comprehension of the text. A study examined the viability of the deep-surface categorization with regard to essay-writing and the relation of different approaches to writing to the quality of…
Descriptors: Essays, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Graduate Students
Chase, Nancy D.; And Others – 1988
A study examined basic writers' written responses to literature and looked for the effects of practice and personality on the development of these students' responses. Subjects, 24 students enrolled in a 4-week summer enrichment program for high risk students at a large Southeastern university. Students were asked to read and respond in writing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Baker, Eva L. – 1987
Examining the status of the United States National Study of the International Evaluation of Educational Achievement Study of Written Composition (IEA-SWC), this report discusses the results of SWC, which attempted to assess, nationally and internationally, the quality of student writing in schools by collecting and evaluating student compositions.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Grade 10
Clark, Renee Smith – 1988
Seven sample age subgroups were selected from official score reports from the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) to determine age cohort performance on the CLEP English Composition examination. The 154 CLEP English Composition score reports received by the Community College of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) between July 1983 and June 1985…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Age Groups, College English
Crowhurst, Marion – 1983
A study examined the revisions made in expressive and persuasive compositions by 14 good and 14 average writers in grades 5, 7, and 11 to determine if grade- or ability-related differences occurred in the quality and kinds of revisions made and if revisions differed for the two types of compositions. Students wrote compositions one day and revised…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1982
The information contained in this report describes the 1982 Manitoba (Canada) Writing Assessment Program and the results of student performance on the grades 3, 6, 9, and 12 writing tests. Various sections of the report provide the following information: (1) steps in the assessment program and procedures for comparison with the 1979 assessment;…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Wiess, Adair B. – 1984
One approach to the development of writing skills at the upper high school level involves modeling, objectivity, revision, and editing. Modeling requires the teacher to reproduce one major writing assignment so that students can observe directly how the teacher attacks the assignment, completing it within the same time frame as they themselves…
Descriptors: Editing, Modeling (Psychology), Models, Peer Evaluation
Flynn, Elizabeth A.; And Others – 1982
A study investigated the effectiveness of peer critiquing and the use of writing models in the preparation of scientific reports. Primary trait scoring was used to evaluate laboratory reports on exercise physiology written by four different groups of sophomore biology majors: (1) a reference (control) group that prepared for writing reports with…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Models
McAndrew, Donald A. – 1981
To determine what effect the perceived audience and purpose of a written piece has on its quality, 30 high ability and 30 low ability writers were selected on the basis of a college placement examination and instructed to write two essays. Half of the students were given specific rhetorical contexts (audience and purpose) as well as topics.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Audience Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Koeppel, Mary Sue – 1983
The writing lab at a Florida two-year technical institute is designed to help students fulfill the writing requirements for their technical degree programs. In the lab, developmental students take composition courses that may be substituted for traditionally required composition courses in their programs. Some students take additional writing…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Descriptions
