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Peer reviewedHaswell, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
A college freshman level sentence-combining treatment consisting of one paragraph rewriting exercise for 12 consecutive weeks resulted in significant gains in average words per clause and words per T-unit. (HOD)
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Sentence Combining, Writing Evaluation
Peer reviewedGrobe, Gary – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
A 1979 analysis of student expository writing showed that holistic quality scores awarded by teacher-raters were influenced to a greater extent by essay length and freedom from spelling errors. A replication of that investigation using a sample of students' narrative writing produced the same findings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Holistic Evaluation, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedPurves, A. C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences
