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Gilmore, Alex – ELT Journal, 2009
Large corpora such as the British National Corpus and the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler are now accessible, free of charge, online and can be usefully incorporated into a process writing approach to help develop students' writing skills. This article aims to familiarize readers with these resources and to show how they can be usefully…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Process Approach (Writing), Computational Linguistics, Internet

Vaughn, Gary; Wenner, Barbara – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Discusses two intriguing ways of explaining error in student writing--the work of Michel Foucault and the work of Roland Barthes. Describes in-class activities and essay assignments that use these perspectives to help students to reach improved understanding of error in writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Error Correction, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Writing Assignments

Haswell, Richard H. – Written Communication, 1988
Argues that the context of writing improvement helps explain writing error. Findings imply that undue efforts by teachers to prevent mistakes may hinder improvement. (RAE)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education, Writing Improvement

Marzano, Robert J. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Discusses two types of student writing problems: error characteristics (spelling, pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, run-on sentences, and capitalization) and nonerror characteristics (density of ideas, variety of referents, and variety of expression). Suggests ways to diagnose and correct them. (HTH)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education, Secondary Education

Horner, Bruce – Rhetoric Review, 1992
Asserts that distinction between "error" and its social implications is false and that research and teaching based on that distinction is flawed. Considers how errors might be viewed as social in their production and correction, examines two ways in which this is elided in the literature, and explores how a social view of error might inform…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Error Patterns
Monagle, E. Brette – 1981
The use of error pattern analysis can reduce the time and money spent on editing and correcting manuscripts. What is required is noting, classifying, and keeping a frequency count of errors. First an editor should take a typical page of writing and circle each error. After the editor has done a sufficiently large number of pages to identify an…
Descriptors: Editing, Efficiency, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Masters, Peter A. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1986
Notes that the basic elements of the English article system are best taught to foreign technical writing students over an extended period of time. Outlines a teaching method that emphasizes reducing errors that native English speakers perceive as wrong rather than teaching the nuances by which native writers fine tune their relationship with their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Students, Grammar

Otte, George – Journal of Basic Writing, 1989
Describes how a computerized text analysis program can help students discover error patterns in their writing, and notes how students' responses to analyses can reduce errors and improve their writing. (MM)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)

Olson, Lyle D. – Journalism Educator, 1987
Examines four topics in composition research that are pertinent to journalism instruction: writing as process, writing across the curriculum, modes of instruction, and dealing with errors. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Journalism Education

Freeman, Donald C. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Considers "unpacking" or "deconstructing" sentences (the reverse of sentence combining) an effective teaching technique that helps students to develop clear predication and eliminate their tendency to use vague, confusing nominalized verbs. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

O'Hearn, Carolyn – College English, 1989
Reviews the limited literature on the learning disabled (LD) college student. Identifies difficulties which LD students face. Emphasizes that institutional services available for LD students should be utilized as much as possible. (RAE)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), College Students, Error Patterns, Higher Education

Taylor, Gordon; Nightingale, Peggy – Higher Education Research and Development, 1990
Studies in 1974 and 1984 of errors in the writing of Australian university freshmen in a history course found no significant differences between the two groups. The most salient elements in the error-prone writing were less related to writing mechanics than to constitution of meaning, suggesting that grammar instruction is inadequate to improve…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies, Error Patterns
Faingold, Eduardo D. – 1997
An exercise in the evaluation of errors in Spanish (second language) composition is reported. The exercise, based on J. M. Hendrickson's "discovery" approach to learning, concerned correction of three error types: lexicon; grammar; and spelling. Subjects were 13 native English-speaking university students in a Spanish language program. In the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Film Criticism, Grammar
Edwards, Barbara Hall – 1988
A pilot study concerning the range of writing skills of intermediate students of English as a second language (ESL) is reported. The study identified the clause structures and relative low-order linguistic skills in the writing samples of 25 college students in this group. The method of evaluation of writing samples was a model of conformity to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns

Thiesmeyer, John – 1984
Writing problems common among many college students are "phrasal" errors such as limited vocabulary, inability to distinguish standard usage from slang or jargon, a tendency to frame thoughts in cliches, a peppering of meaningless intensifiers, and a gift for redundancy and wordiness. To help correct these problems, a text-checking system called…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Editing, Error Patterns, Feedback