But What Do They Say? Gender and the Content of Student Writing.

Keroes, Jo

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Publication Date: 1990

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But What Do They Say? Gender and the Content of Student Writing.

Keroes, Jo

Discourse Processes, v13 n2 p243-57 Apr-Jun 1990

Analyses several hundred essays written by an equal number of male and female college students in response to two separate prompts on a writing proficiency test. Finds partial support for the hypotheses that men focus on an individual's autonomy and women on relationships. Finds, however, that themes of autonomy are overall the most common themes. (KEH)

Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Sex Differences, Social Cognition, Writing (Composition), Writing Research

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Language: English

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