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Markel, Mike – Computers and Composition, 1994
Examines relationships among computer experience, attitudes, writing behaviors, and writing quality for advanced undergraduate students who have owned Macintosh computers for at least three years. Finds that writing attitudes and practices are fairly well ingrained for the less competent writers, and they need to become comfortable with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Word Processing
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Adler-Kassner, Linda – College Composition and Communication, 1998
Explores how ownership of student writing was represented in the progressivism of the early 1900s and the expressivism of the 1960s and 1970s. Suggests that as vestiges of progressive and expressivist concepts of composition continue into the present, there are hopeful signs that a new, more usable concept of ownership is emerging. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ownership, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
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Spigelman, Candace – College Composition and Communication, 1998
Argues that students' attitudes about authorship and intellectual property rights are evidence of cultural habits of mind. Overviews perceptions of literary products as public and/or private property. Explores conflicts in legal notions of textual ownership relating to copyrights and the idea/expression dichotomy in American Constitutional law.…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Higher Education, Intellectual Property, Peer Groups
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Casey, Mara; Hemenway, Stephen I. – English Journal, 2001
Describes a longitudinal study of third graders experiencing a writing and revision program by following them through high school, interviewing them again in sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades. Reveals some important steps all teachers must take to achieve a balance between structure and freedom in the writing curriculum. (SG)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Revision (Written Composition)
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Hassett, Michael – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1995
Suggests that through Kenneth Burke, writing teachers can approach writing as something to be feared, something to approach with trembling and mortification. Examines Burke's notion of how language "goads" writers to eliminate the response of others. Examines contemporary and Burkean approaches to writing that would help students to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Higher Education, Language, Language Usage
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Abbott, Judy A. – Written Communication, 2000
Demonstrates that two fifth-grade avid writers differentiated between flow experiences and non-flow experiences associated with writing, and describes flow experiences in terms similar to those reported in studies in adolescents and adults. Shows that flow experiences occurred when students controlled important aspects of writing, such as…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Self Motivation, Student Attitudes
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Lavelle, Ellen; Zuercher, Nancy – Higher Education, 2001
Investigated university students' beliefs about themselves as writers and about the experience of learning in writing as related to writing approaches measured by the Inventory of Processes in College Composition. Found support for the deep and surface paradigm, and variation in students' conceptions of writing, attitudes about themselves as…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Writing (Composition)
Hermsen, Terry, Ed.; Fox, Robert, Ed. – 1998
Based on a series of successful summer writing institutes, this book presents practical ways for teachers to reinvigorate their classrooms and their own attitudes toward creative writing. In four complementary sections focusing on four groups of writers--creative writers in residence, K-12 students and teachers who participated in the summer…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Summer Programs
Pelias, Ronald J. – 1998
This paper contains three parts. Part 1 consists of a poem, "An Apology for Performative Writing." Part 2, "The Traditional Scholar's Game--An Argument," discusses the arguments regarding performative writing. It identifies several key arguments both for and against the works that cluster around such labels as performative…
Descriptors: Essays, Ethnography, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education
Ford, Michael P. – 1991
To develop courses which would emphasize instruction in writing specifically needed to successfully carry out the professional responsibilities of a reading teacher, a study surveyed inservice reading teachers about their writing activities and compared those results with the writing activities required of preservice reading teachers in existing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Occupational Surveys, Preservice Teacher Education
Phillips, Jerry – 1991
An ethnographic study examined the impact of a writing workshop on non-academic writers. Subjects, 11 adult non-academic writers who wrote little, were seldom around others who did, and did not think they were good writers, participated in 10 Saturday sessions conducted in a bookstore in a rural town. They wrote narratives on self-selected topics…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperative Learning, Editing, Ethnography
Savage, Gerald – 1992
An unavoidably ideological frame of reference in Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) exists and an unavoidably political job must be undertaken if Writing across the Curriculum is to escape being the handmaiden to the so-called content disciplines. Despite this, many teachers who work in the field do not see their task as emerging from a distinct…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Modes, Higher Education, Ideology
Brown, Deborah – 1994
Using interviews in a longitudinal study can be a productive way to gain insights into various factors that play a part in how students view their experiences as they make transitions into a university and across various contexts for writing. During the first three semesters of a study, 312 interviews were conducted with students, beginning when…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies, Research Methodology
Smith, Maggy – 1991
A study examined college freshmen management students' views about the social implications for their writing in terms of themselves as writers, the way they view their audience and their audience's reaction to their writing, and about the actual text itself. Seven self-selected students in the management class were interviewed after each of three…
Descriptors: Audience Response, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Williams, Robert Hillis – Virginia English Bulletin, 2000
This article tells the story of a writer for whom "voice" is an important element that he feels he once had but has lost in his writing. The article mostly places the blame on his trying to please teachers and professors and listening to their comments about his writing. It quotes many scholars (such as Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner)…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
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