The Effects of Available Information on Responses to School Writing Tasks.

Langer, Judith A.

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ERIC Number: EJ294745

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Publication Date: 1984

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The Effects of Available Information on Responses to School Writing Tasks.

Langer, Judith A.

Research in the Teaching of English, v18 n1 p27-44 Feb 1984

Investigates the relationship between topic-specific background knowledge and measures of overall quality, coherence, syntactic complexity, audience, and function in the expository writing of tenth grade students. (HOD)

Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Grade 10, Knowledge Level, Measures (Individuals), Predictive Validity, Secondary Education, Sentence Structure, United States History, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Research, Writing Skills

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Language: English

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