
ERIC Number: EJ437981
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Publication Date: 1990
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Not Mechanics but Meaning: Error in Tertiary Students' Writing.
Taylor, Gordon; Nightingale, Peggy
Higher Education Research and Development, v9 n2 p161-75 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 the errors. (Author/MSE)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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