A principal components analysis was conducted to determine whether the measures of essays made by the computer could be grouped into factors. Six factors (fluency, spelling, diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and paragraphing) were identified. (Author)

Shorter version of this paper read at the First California Linguistics Conference, Berkeley, May 1971. (VM)

Discusses negation in German grammar. (DS)

Criterion checklists for hostility, anxiety, and dependency behaviors in junior high school children were developed rationally and refined through factor analysis. All three scales were cross-validated on a further 100 children though only the hostility scale showed discriminant validity. (Author)

Research performed, in part, while the author was a research assistant at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning; remainder conducted at the University of Texas under a National Science Foundation - USDP grant. (VM)

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation. Experiments supported by a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health grant; paper preparation supported by the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, through the U.S. Office of Education. (VM)

Students of English as a second language, whose errors in writing result partly from lack of control over English transform patterns, should be taught to combine ideas through a transform process. (Author)