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Download full textWallace, David L.; Hayes, John R. – 1990
A study investigated the impact of task definition on students' revising strategies to determine whether college freshman writers could revise globally if instructed to do so and if those global revisions would result in improved texts. Data were elicited from 38 students enrolled in two entry-level college writing courses. Participants, randomly…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Error Correction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWallace, David L.; Hayes, John R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1991
Investigates the impact of task definition on students' revising strategies. Finds that texts written by students who receive instruction on global revision are judged both to be of significantly better quality and include significantly more global revisions than students who were simply asked to make the text better. (MG)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Hayes, John R.; Flower, Linda S. – 1983
A research project was undertaken to (1) identify the major cognitive processes involved in expository writing, (2) test a model of the organization of those processes, and (3) identify teachable aids that could be used by poor and average adult writers to improve their writing skills. Subjects were expert and novice student writers at…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Expository Writing
