This study investigated the impact of an Internet based program designed to improve basic writing skills on grammar and punctuation scores on an English Competency Test. Three groups in a small Midwestern university's freshmen composition class were tested: a control group (Test Group 1), which did not use the program; and two treatment groups:…

One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication proofreading, this booklet for business and office students provides instruction in the use of commas, dashes, and parentheses. Included are terminal and specific objectives, punctuation rules and related information, and tasks for practice. A test over the information presented concludes…

One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication proofreading, this booklet provides the business and office student instruction in word division. Included are terminal and specific objectives, word division rules and related information, and tasks for practice. A test over the information presented concludes the manual. (Test answers…

One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication and proofreading, this booklet for business and office students provides instruction in the use of periods, question marks, exclamation marks, and semicolons. Included are terminal and specific objectives, punctuation rules and related information, and tasks for practice. A test over the…

One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication proofreading, this booklet for business and office students provides instruction in the use of apostrophes, quotes, italics, hyphens, brackets, ellipsis dots, leader dots, bullets, superscripts, and subscripts. Included are terminal and specific objectives, punctuation rules and related…