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Camp, Gerald, Ed. – 1982
Each written by a classroom teacher and based on the experience of that teacher working with his or her students, the articles in this collection are an extension of the Bay Area Writing Project assumptions. Many contain samples of writing done by students in response to the writing tasks described. After a preamble that discusses what is already…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Download full textFaigley, Lester; Skinner, Anna – 1982
After a short introductory chapter to this literature review on composing processes, the second chapter examines research that covers the timing and content of planning, planning subprocesses, employing planning strategies, and instruction in planning. Studies in the third chapter are divided into two sections, oral and written discourse…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Weeks, Janet O.; White, Miriam B. – 1982
Eighteen fourth grade students and twenty sixth grade students participated in a study to determine if there was a significant difference in the quality of written composition among students exposed to the peer editing process as opposed to those exposed to teacher editing. The control group consisted of 8 fourth grade students and 10 sixth grade…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammatical Acceptability, Intermediate Grades, Motivation Techniques
Holdzkom, David; And Others – 1982
To determine what pedagogical uses the primary trait system might serve apart from providing a means to assess students' writing, data were collected from 11 elementary and junior high school teachers who had participated in an earlier week-long workshop on primary trait scoring. Participating teachers were asked to complete a log of their…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Junior High Schools
Wresch, William, Ed. – 1984
This compilation of articles on computer applications in writing instruction deals with the areas of prewriting, editing and grammar, word processing research and applications, and programs for the writing process. It contains the following papers: "Recollections of First-Generation Computer-Assisted Prewriting," by Hugh Burns; "Computer-Based…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
Wesdorp, Hildo – 1983
One objective of the International Study of Achievement in Written Composition was to develop an instrument that could explore the relationships between instructional variables and educational results. Three levels of specificity were aimed at: (1) broad and general characteristics of the instructional process; (2) specific dimensions of native…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques
Matheson, Carol – 1980
A study examined whether using a tree diagram (a graphic, multidimensional classification device) as a prewriting organizer would provide students with a systematic method of searching for and organizing the content of their descriptive writing to meet some communication goal. One-hundred twenty-three seventh grade students were classified as…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Descriptive Writing, Diagrams, Grade 7
Hubert, Henry A. – Highway One, 1986
Using protocol analysis, a study concluded that high school and college writers have similar writing styles. Also asserts that protocols are an excellent research tool for analyzing the composing process. (SRT)
Descriptors: College Students, Grade 10, High School Students, High Schools
McHugh, Bernard – Highway One, 1986
Examines the attitudes of students to several aspects of the writing process. Concludes that the process approach to writing improved students' attitude toward composition. (SRT)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Conferences, High School Students, Peer Evaluation
Peer reviewedWinter, Janet K. – Business Communication Quarterly, 1996
Describes a prewriting problem-solving plan intended to help students achieve effective organization and persuasion in writing business documents. Finds that business communication students felt the plan was beneficial, particularly for persuasive messages, individual writing, and small-group writing, and that many felt the plan was worth…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Research, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
Hunter, William J. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses a research project examining the integration of computers into seventh and eighth grade language arts classrooms. Focuses on the ways in the researchers' observations tend to conform to what has been shown by existing research. Discusses their results in terms of four themes that emerged in their analysis. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Intellectual Property, Interpersonal Relationship
Chandrasegaran, Antonia – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1989
Teaching and learning activities for idea generation and planning, used to teach expository writing to university students in Singapore, are described. The techniques are applicable to both English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-first-language composition classes. (14 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
Huang, Su-yueh – 1999
This study investigated the extent to which English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) writing students in a Taiwanese university used ideas provided by their peers during computer-mediated prewriting discussions, and the quality of the peers' comments. Subjects were 17 students in four writing groups. Transcripts of discussions preceding the first…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups
Robbins, Bruce – 1991
Playwriting gives students focused experience with dialogue, which is useful in many kinds of writing, and provides an avenue for process-based writing instruction. The assignment of writing plays allows students to try out various personae without risking direct self-identification. Students write more for one another than for the teacher,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Drama, High Schools
Duin, Ann Hill – 1983
A study investigated the effects of preteaching vocabulary on students' performance of a writing task targeted to the use of those words. Subjects were 50 fourth grade and 55 sixth grade students. Materials included a pretest narrative writing assignment, a 10-word vocabulary pretest and posttest, a vocabulary instructional booklet with teacher's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
