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A CHAID Analysis of a Diagnostic Writing Sample as a Placement Tool for Freshman Composition.

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Burley, Hansel; And Others – 1996

Proper placement of students into either remedial writing or Composition I can be crucial to their success in higher education. Using a database of nearly 6,000 students who entered an open admissions community college in Texas, the researchers attempted to discover the best predictor of student success in Composition I. For students who took a…

Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Grading

Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English: Formulas and Idioms in the Writing of Multilingual and Creole-Speaking Community College Students in Hawaii. Studies in Ethnolinguistics, Volume 2.

Sonomura, Marion Okawa – 1996

Going beyond mere grammaticality, this book examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. The book suggests criteria for the classification of "phrasematic" expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms,…

Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classification, Community Colleges, English