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Harley, John K. – 1981
The characteristics of academic writing are examined in this paper, and some remedies are suggested for correcting the "language deformities" that many academic writers persist in creating. Three categories of error to which academic writers are apt to be susceptible are discussed. The first category covers errors that are shortcomings…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement, Teachers
Aldrich, Pearl G. – 1979
In an effort to identify some factors that interfere with effective writing in adult writers, a three-page questionnaire was administered to 165 adults, most with technical degrees, who worked in the Washington, D. C., area. Respondents were top to middle management personnel who spent a significant portion of their time on the job writing and who…
Descriptors: Adults, Middle Management, Occupational Surveys, Technical Writing
Humes, Ann – 1980
Three different scoring systems are described; these systems are widely used for evaluating students' writing samples. A new model for scoring is presented by comparing and contrasting that model with the other systems. A pilot study of the new model for writing-sample items, scoring keys, and scoring guidelines is discussed. The pilot study was…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Holistic Evaluation, Scoring
Download full textHOPPER, HAROLD H.; KELLER, HELEN – 1966
BY A STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING, 274 STUDENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO THREE SECTIONS OF 56 STUDENTS EACH AND FOUR SECTIONS OF 28 STUDENTS. EVALUATION OF THE INSTRUCTION IN THE LARGE AND SMALL GROUPS INVOLVED ANALYSIS OF TWO ESSAYS AND INSTRUCTOR-STUDENT EVALUATIONS. WHILE THERE WAS SOME VARIATION IN STUDENT PREFERENCES, THE RESULTS OF THE PRETEST AND THE…
Descriptors: Class Size, English Instruction, Experimental Programs, Two Year Colleges
THOMPSON, PHILLIP – 1961
THE ADVANCED STANDING PROGRAM IN ENGLISH IS DESIGNED TO PREPARE SELECTED STUDENTS FOR THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES, WHICH ARE EQUIVALENT OF COLLEGE FRESHMAN ENGLISH, IN HIGH SCHOOL. WHILE KEEPING ADVANCED PLACEMENT NEEDS IN MIND, EMPHASIS IN CURRICULUM IS PLACED ON THE MORE IMPORTANT GOAL OF BETTER COLLEGE PREPARATION IN ENGLISH. THE ADVANCED…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Preparation, Critical Thinking, English
ROHMAN, D. GORDON; WLECKE, ALBERT O. – 1964
"THE BEST YOU CAN WRITE WILL BE THE BEST YOU ARE," WAS THE HYPOTHESIS AND THE CONCLUSION. BASED ON THIS BELIEF, TEACHERS ASSUME A SECOND-PLACE POSITION AND THE GREATEST EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE STUDENT AND HIS OWN PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH EXPERIENCE AND WITH HIMSELF. THE TEACHER'S PRINCIPAL INTEREST AND RESPONSIBILITY WAS TO ASSIST THE…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, English, Secondary Schools, Student Motivation
O'DONNEL, ROY C. – 1963
THIS STUDY HYPOTHESIZED THAT (1) THERE IS A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION BETWEEN ABILITY IN WRITTEN COMPOSITION AND AWARENESS OF STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN ENGLISH, AND (2) THIS CORRELATION IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ABILITY IN WRITTEN COMPOSITION AND ABILITY TO VERBALIZE KNOWLEDGE OF RULES AND TERMINOLOGY OF…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Ability
HUNT, KELLOGG W. – 1964
THE WRITING OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN WAS STUDIED TO DEVELOP MORE REVEALING PROCEDURES FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSES OF GRAMMAR. THE WRITINGS OF 54 BOYS AND GIRLS FROM GRADES 4, 8, AND 12 WERE SELECTED AND ANALYZED BY GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE PROJECT INVESTIGATOR. THE SENTENCE STRUCTURES WERE ANALYZED BY TRANSFORMATIONAL METHODS, WITH EVALUATION MADE ON…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grammar, Methods Research
Myers, Mildred S. – 1980
A study examined the written communication at the technical/professional and managerial levels in a "Fortune 500" corporation to determine whether managers/executives had different communications purposes and, therefore, used different rhetorical strategies and approaches than did professional/technical staff. Rhetorical analysis was conducted of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Organizational Communication, Technical Writing, Writing Processes
Rubens, Philip M. – 1980
As opposed to being a "closed" text (tightly constrained by physical formats, corporate style, and specialized vocabulary), technical writing is actually "open" in the sense that such a text can be interpreted subjectively by an informed audience. Three ethical issues that should be explored in teaching technical writing include personality--the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Language Styles, Technical Writing
Winterowd, W. Ross – 1977
This paper considers the implications for rhetorical studies of recent research and theory on hemispheric functions. After discussing differences between the functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain, these differences are related to metaphor (which is seen as propositional in nature) and synecdoche (which is seen as appositional).…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Reading Processes
Walpole, Jane R. – 1979
"Strunctional" analysis identifies, simultaneously yet separately, both the structural and functional links that tie sentence pairs together. Coherence in prose results from an appropriate combination of structural and functional relations between each sentence pair. Structural links between sentences comprise syntactic and lexical links;…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Prose, Sentences
Beedon, Laurel; Heinmiller, Joseph – 1979
This booklet is designed to guide educators through the necessary steps to writing for publication in educational journals. The first section discusses the steps in the writing process, from first thoughts on a topic to the final draft. The next section deals with identifying and selecting a publisher, whether to write a query letter, and what…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Periodicals, Publications, Teachers
Tibbetts, Charlene – 1979
A necessary but neglected step in teaching classification to inexperienced writers is list making and categorizing. Learning that step gives the untrained writer practical experience in learning that a good writer classifies for a purpose and that a relationship exists between the evidence, the categories, the outline, the paragraph, and the whole…
Descriptors: Classification, English Instruction, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
FRANCIS, W. NELSON – 1963
SINCE LINGUISTICS IS A SCIENCE AND COMPOSITION IS A SKILL, THE TWO AREAS MEET ONLY WHEN THE LINGUIST AND THE TEACHER OF COMPOSITION DESCEND FROM THEIR PRIMARY OCCUPATIONS TO THE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION OF HOW ONE WORD IS PLACED AFTER ANOTHER IN A SENTENCE. THE LINGUIST CONCERNS HIMSELF MAINLY WITH COLLECTING AND ARRANGING INFORMATION TO SUPPORT OR…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Language, Linguistics
