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Calling Writers' Bluffs: Sources of Readers' Judgements in University Placement Testing.
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Sullivan, Francis J. – 1987
To examine "bluffing"--ways in which conflicts in classrooms and evaluation procedures influence the styles of student writing and teachers' responses to different styles, a study analyzed the placement-test essays of 99 undergraduates entering Temple University (Pennsylvania) in the fall of 1982. Analysis of the texts was based on a…
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