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Berkenkotter, Carol – 1983
To examine the relationship between student writer and audience, five volunteers from a college freshman composition class were asked to think aloud on tape as they revised three out-of-class drafts of a paper. The subjects gave one protocol after getting feedback on an early draft from their own writing group, another after a student-teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Feedback
Pavlisin, Peggy Irene – 1983
Designed to use recent research on revision activities and personal error analysis, a classroom study compared grades on papers written by students with and without specific instruction and practice in revising and proofreading techniques. Detailed statistical analyses of two writing assignments revealed no significant difference in grade…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1989
Stressing that reading aloud to children is the single most important way to help children get ready to read and write, this brochure offers ideas for encouraging preschoolers to experiment with writing, for motivating school-age children to write more, and for involving the whole family in writing at home. The brochure also suggests ways to…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy
Gilman, David Alan – 1989
The study investigated the effectiveness of and attitudes toward two delivery systems (an enrichment pull-out program and a self-contained classroom) for gifted/talented instruction in Southwest Allen County, Indiana. The effects on fifth-grade students (N=38) enrolled in the program and sixth-grade students (N=45) who had experienced the program…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Delivery Systems, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
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Rijlaarsdam, G. – 1987
To evaluate composition programs based on peer feedback, a study compared the improvement in written composition skills of two sets of eighth grade students in 11 classes at eight Dutch schools. The control group was enrolled in teacher feedback programs, the experimental group was enrolled in peer feedback programs. Students wrote a discursive…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Program Evaluation
Cathcart, Gayal – 1990
A practicum was designed to change the traditional methods of writing instruction which had not been effective in meeting the developmental needs of first-grade children. Twenty-two teachers responded to two surveys to provide problem documentation data. Four goals and instructional plans were selected to address the problem. The first goal, of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities
Freeman, Mary G. – 1989
Nursing textbooks which address the subject of medical documentation tend to equate good documentation of a patient's behavior and state with strong interpersonal skills on the part of the nurse. Rarely do they point out the importance of developing a deep concentrated attention to the sensory world around oneself in order to be a good medical…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Documentation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Medical Care Evaluation
Goodman, Harriet E. – 1990
A practicum was conducted to develop critical thinking and improve expression through creative written language utilizing precision teaching as an evaluation of student performance. Six students (grades second through sixth) with low idea generation and few organization skills were trained by three teachers and a teacher advisor using…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking
Grant-Davie, Keith; Shapiro, Nancy – 1987
Responding to student writing is challenging for teachers, because it is difficult to write helpful, perceptive comments on student papers. Recent theory and research suggest that teachers can learn much about response, and that there are options available to writing teachers searching for better ways to respond to student papers. An important…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Higher Education, Reader Response
Lott, Clarinda Harriss – 1987
The formulae developed to encourage the impersonal writing considered correct in academic disciplines have their roots in past gender-biased scientific writing in which "male" thinking and writing intervened to subjugate female Nature. Vestiges of this idea of a masculine order as a clearly superior state are present in the more…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Expository Writing
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
In 1984-85, the New York City Public Schools received $2,374,686 from the state legislature to operate the School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program). The program consisted of 46 different projects designed to provide innovative solutions to local educational and school problems. Thirteen of these projects, providing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
To determine students' metacognitive knowledge of the expository writing process, a study analyzed fifth and sixth graders' declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge by means of group questionnaires and individual interviews at all stages of their participation in one of three year-long writing programs. The programs emphasized social…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
Dalton, David W.; Watson, James F. – 1986
This study examined the effects of a year-long word processing program on learners' holistic writing skills. Based on results of a writing pretest, 80 seventh grade students were designated as relatively high or low in prior writing achievement and assigned to one of two groups: a word processing treatment and a conventional writing process…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Factor Analysis, Grade 7
Howgate, Lynn – 1982
Acknowledging that the process approach to writing instruction is particularly valuable for lower ability students (because carrying a project through from prewriting to publication enhances their self-esteem), this book presents procedures for teaching writing to build student confidence and subsequently to improve student writing. Following an…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Evaluation
Barry, Mina J. – 1985
A tutor charged with the task of helping a third-grade child with good reading skills improve his writing skills developed a plan to move the student gradually from dictating stories to writing independently. The student had difficulty initiating and maintaining on-task behavior and disliked writing independently, although he had…
Descriptors: Dictation, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Writing Relationship
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