Finds that college students with high writing apprehension differed significantly from those with low apprehension of writing on both perceived message quality and actual structural characteristics of the messages they encoded. (Author/GW)

Describes a writing assignment designed to aid students' perception of audience, purpose, format, vocabulary, pertinent information, and peer editing. Establishes a framework for both independent student research and group work and revision. Encourages students to establish a rapport with groups to evaluate the writing's content, presentation,…

Described are experiences with a research project at the University of Queensland (Australia). Medical students are required to conduct the research during their fourth and fifth year of study. Considered are departmental expectations and objectives for the course, student experiences and opinions, and the provisions and processes which facilitate…

Presents an alternative to the usual selections taught in research paper writing courses. Suggests that Josephine Tey's novel is more relevant and enjoyable, as well as better suited for research projects, than, for example, "1984" or "The Sound and the Fury." (HTH)

In teaching others about their enrichment research projects, gifted students develop instructional skills useful in many contexts. The model MAT (Making All-of-us Teachers) Program uses a five-part process: (1) thinking about teaching; (2) choosing a lesson topic; (3) planning the lesson; (4) delivering the lesson; and (5) review and evaluation.…

This project involves secondary students in selecting and researching an event in U.S. history and writing a poetic ballad, from a first person point of view. Completed works are presented at a school assembly. (RM)

Outlines a method for compiling information from secondary sources without assigning lengthy research papers in both business communications and principles of marketing classes. (SRT)

Identifies the benefits of History Day for upper elementary through high school students and provides guidelines for helping students develop successful projects. (JDH)

Remote sensing analysis and statistical methods were used to analyze the coastal dunes of Plum Island, Massachusetts. The research methodology used provides an example of a student project for remote sensing, geomorphology, or spatial analysis courses at the university level. (RM)

The involvement of undergraduate science majors in publishable research is a vital aspect of their education. The special problems confronted by faculty doing and directing such research are formidable. Several of these problems (such as heavy teaching loads) and ways of attacking them are described. (JN)

Describes the use of a succession of freshman English assignments that begins with a paper not based on research and concludes with a paper based on extensive research, designed to prepare students for term paper assignments. (HTH)

An important part of a clerkship in community medicine on the Navajo Indian reservation is a project in which students select a health problem which they investigate using epidemiological methods of assessment and for which they seek a solution. (Author/MLW)

Discusses: (1) the conflict about the importance of research at predominantly undergraduate schools; (2) sources of funding for undergraduate research (several of which are targeted at predominantly undergraduate institutions); and (3) undergraduate research at doctoral-granting institutions. (JN)

Describes fourth-grade students' experiences during a concentrated research writing project. Shows through a case study how students learned to present objective information through a narrative vehicle. (HTH)

Surveyed 69 current and former graduate students to determine attitude change, perception of expectations, and factors influencing research. Analysis of the data showed that although students perceived their program's expectations for research to be greater than their own wants, the students' interest increased throughout and after trainng. (LLL)