Viewpoints: A Symposium on the Usefulness of Literacy Research.

Saks, A. L., Ed.

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Viewpoints: A Symposium on the Usefulness of Literacy Research.

Saks, A. L., Ed.

Research in the Teaching of English, v29 n3 p326-48 Oct 1995

Presents the responses of several well-known scholars--David Bloome, Joanne M. Golden, Carol D. Lee, Susan Hynds, Michael Pressley, and Timothy Shanahan--to Alan C. Purves's criticism of educational research in the English language arts for its redundancy, its staleness, its reliance on jargon and labels, and its flawed methodology. (TB)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum, Language Arts, Literacy, Reading Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Research Skills, Researchers, Writing Research

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Language: English

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