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ERIC Number: EJ490266
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Individual Differences in Writing: Implications of Translating Fluency.
McCutcheon, Deborah; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v86 n2 p256-66 Jun 1994
In 2 experiments involving 271 elementary and middle-school students with greater and lesser writing skills, components of the writing-translating process were examined. Skilled writers showed more fluent sentence-generation processes and were faster on lexical decision-making tasks. Fluent translating may help reduce the working-memory load during writing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Sentences, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Lexical Access; Translating Fluency; Working Memory