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Marchesani, Richard J. – 1992
A practicum sought to improve student writing and student attitude towards writing through a performance-based assessment which featured peer and teacher conferencing, holistic grading, and publication of material written by students. The practicum involved seventh and eighth graders and five teachers who instituted all aspects of the writing…
Descriptors: Holistic Evaluation, Junior High Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Meyer, Richard J. – 1993
A study examined and analyzed the functions of written language for one writer during her first-grade year. Data included 516 pieces of writing done by the subject, transcriptions of interviews with the subject, and field notes. Results indicated that: (1) sources of the subject's writing ranged from extremely structured situations to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Cothern, Nancy B. – 1989
A study investigated the relationship between beliefs and attitudes toward reading and writing, and the effect of personal journal writing on attitudes and beliefs. Subjects, four intact classes of 95 fourth-grade students enrolled in two public schools in a southeastern metropolitan area, were randomly selected to participate in the study. In…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Journal Writing, Reading Attitudes
Pomper, Marlene M. – 1986
Word processors can enhance the reading and writing skills of underprepared college students in a special course combining reading and writing. Word processors may serve such a course in many ways: (1) storing and retrieving students' own unpublished resource materials; (2) moving large blocks of writing at the flick of a finger; (3) serving as…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Tebo-Messina, Margaret; Blough, Doris B. – 1989
The idea behind this project created by two teachers of different age groups was that providing students with penpals would give students a real audience to write to and change their attitudes about writing. Seventh graders and college students exchanged letters and were required to send working drafts of some class assignments to each other to…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Junior High Schools
Buhrke, Lynn; Henkels, Lori; Klene, Jennifer; Pfister, Heather – 2002
This report describes a program for improving writing skills and related attitudes towards writing of elementary students. The target population consisted of fourth grade students in stable middle to upper class suburban communities, located northwest of a large midwestern city. The problems of inadequate writing skills and poor writing attitudes…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
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Ensio, Tobi C.; Boxeth, Krystal R. – 2000
The purpose of this study is to investigate how publishing students' writing in the community affects their attitudes toward writing. Participants were 19 sixth-grade language arts students from an urban upper elementary school. Results from student attitude surveys indicate that using publishing is an effective method of connecting students to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Zhang, Will – 2001
Community college students are often described as less motivated, or "turned-off," compared to other college students. This stereotype has prevented many writing instructors from trying new ways of reaching these students at a Midwest community college, the majority of whom have access to the Internet either at home or in the local…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
Campillo, Magda; Pool, Suzanne – 1999
This paper reports the results of a five-week intervention designed to improve students' writing proficiency through self-efficacy training in a remedial summer course. Twenty pre-freshmen students participated in the program. In addition to whole-class instruction, students met individually with instructional coordinators. During these meetings…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Remedial Instruction, Self Efficacy, Summer Programs
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Neuleib, Janice; Scharton, Maurice – Writing Center Journal, 1990
Reports results of a survey of writing center tutors concerning their attitudes toward computer use. Finds that tutors in the writing center are largely confident in using word processing programs for their own writing needs and that tutors assume the students they tutor will use computers for revision of papers. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
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Lott, Joyce Greenberg – English Journal, 1991
Describes how one teacher dealt with a rebellious sophomore Honors English student and how they learned to listen to each other. (MG)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, High Schools, Student Attitudes, Teacher Response
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Connors, Patricia E. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1990
Describes a freshman honors writing course in which students submit research papers and then write letters to the teacher about the experience. Identifies four concerns raised by students: (1) managing time; (2) managing the topic; (3) integrating sources; and (4) following a structure. Concludes that peer interaction is a valuable resource for…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Letters (Correspondence), Peer Evaluation
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Anderson, Jim – Reading Horizons, 1995
Documents the perceptions of literacy acquisition held by parents from three different cultural groups (Chinese Canadian, Euro-Canadian, and Indo-Canadian). Suggests that cultural membership is a crucial variable to examine, and that communicating dimensions of literacy programs to parents may be very difficult given the ways in which cultural…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Cultural Traits, Elementary Education
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Owston, Ronald D.; And Others – Computers in the Schools, 1991
Students in four eighth grade communications arts classes wrote two stories--one using a word processor and one written manually. Participants' attitudes toward writing and editing were assessed. Stories were graded for overall competence, organization, support of ideas, and mechanics; a subsample received detailed analysis. Word processed stories…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Editing, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
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Daane, Mary C. – Journal of Reading, 1991
Examines four college students' descriptions of their early reading experiences and their texts composed in class, to reveal notable parallels between their reading histories and their present writing performances. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Experience, Early Reading, Freshman Composition
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