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Harper, Kathy – 1997
A study investigated the writing done by third graders and the processes used when learning to use writing as a meaning-making activity. Four focal students were followed through composing episodes. The classroom was located in a suburban, upper middle class area in Ohio. Less than 3% of the school district population were members of a minority…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Grade 3, Integrated Curriculum
Flennoy, Audrey J. – 1992
This paper describes a practicum designed to give 12 low-achieving first-grade children more time to improve their communication skills, to promote knowledge development, and to motivate children to become enthusiastic about the reading and writing process. Whole language, creative drama, and different styles of writing were utilized in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Communication Skills, Creative Dramatics, Grade 1
Campbell, Tim K. – 1992
A study examines teacher's and children's interactions with the use of the writing journal in a pre-k classroom (ages 3 to 4). Eight pre-school children and three teachers in a university lab school were observed twice a week for 1-hour sessions over a 6-month period. The use of the writing journal was a part of the total learning environment…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Emergent Literacy, Journal Writing, Language Acquisition
Winchock, J. M. – 1995
A study examined the masculinity/femininity attitude of students toward reading and writing. Subjects, 91 young adults and adults in high school, adult high school, and community college remedial classes in the fall and spring of the 1994-1995 school year, completed the Mazurkiewicz Masculine Feminine Attitude Survey. Results indicated no…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Community Colleges, High Schools
Thomas, Linda A. – 1992
A study determined how exposure to learning writing as process through writing workshops would affect the attitudes of fifth grade students. Subjects had no experience with writing as process. At the outset of the school year, the participants, 23 fifth-grade students in a northeastern New Jersey school, were administered the "Emig-King…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Process Approach (Writing)
Reichert, Nancy L. – 1994
Acting as a team, a graduate research methods class at Florida State University studied a first-year imaginative writing course, "Writing from Life," designed to help students write autobiography, fiction, and poetry. In the course of this study, intriguing differences became apparent between the attitudes and approaches in this class…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Marcus, Margery – 1994
A practicum was designed to improve the internal and external editing skills of high school students so that their papers would reflect thought and care. The target population was 67 regular level tenth grade English students in a predominantly middle class high school in southeastern Florida. A combination of strategies were used to improve…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Editing, Grade 10, High Schools
Mouritzen, Gaye S. – 1993
A practicum, in an alternative high school work setting, was designed to deal with the problem of a deficiency in the writing ability students needed to express themselves skillfully and adequately. The goal was to increase writing involvement and writing ability. The objectives included the organization of a writing program, the improvement of…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Nontraditional Education
Griffin, Jack C. – 1991
A practicum implemented a program of writing instruction using computers, and measured its effectiveness in helping eleventh-grade remedial students meet the district's ninth-grade writing proficiency requirements, and in improving students' attitudes toward writing. Subjects were 13 eleventh-grade students in a C-track (remedial) English class. A…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computers, English Instruction
Monteith, Sharon K. – 1991
A study compared writing scores and attitudes of second grade students in a traditional writing classroom and a writing process classroom. Subjects, 25 second-grade students in a writing process classroom and 26 students in a traditional classroom from the same rural school, were instructed in their respective classrooms for 6 months. Most…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness
Lambert, Glenda M. S. – 1999
A program was implemented to help improve 12th grade Honors English students' writing skills through conferencing. The targeted group consisted of 13 students who experienced difficulties in writing effective written pieces. Their writing included fragments, run-on sentences, and improper use of punctuation. On the Stanford Achievement Test given…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High Schools, Honors Curriculum, Instructional Effectiveness
Phillips, Jerry – 1990
A new "remedial" or marginal group has emerged in teacher certification, known in Texas as Alternate Certification. In the Texas program, university graduates earn a certificate upon completion of a rigid state-mandated program. A group of 25 graduate students and their teacher set out to examine their notions of literacy, its…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literacy
Phillips, Jerry – 1992
Professional literature reporting the use of the "cliff-hanger" as genre as a teaching tool in writing instruction is relatively quiet. College students may become better writers and readers when they write cliff-hangers and allow other students to read their writing. Sixty-five undergraduate reading students at a southeastern Arkansas…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Literary Genres
Railey, Kevin; And Others – 1992
A study investigated one dimension of metacognition--the knowledge of cognition--in first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing. Subjects were 20 students (10 L1 and 10 L2) in a first level college writing course. A questionnaire elicited subjects' definitions of good writing, their notions of the constituent features of the writing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Metacognition
Despot, Paula C. – 1992
A practicum was designed to provide opportunities for second-grade students from low socioeconomic school communities to use computer technology in the writing process. Staff development training was designed and conducted to increase teachers' knowledge, experience, and attitudes toward using the computer as a tool for writing. Providing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 2, Inservice Teacher Education
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