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Despite the excellent research of Janet Emig, Donald Graves and others, the writing process itself is still largely a mystery.
We know that it is a very complex process requiring the mastery of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This research shows that focusing on peer and teacher talk about Year 5 and 6 students’ scripts creates significant increases in the quality of the students’ written language. Students’ initial...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is not intended to be a series of handy hints on choosing between specific brands of microcomputers or different word processing programs. That sort of information is best obtained from...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can research findings can be used to develop specific teaching approaches? This UK article concentrates on the potential of shared and guided writing for improving syntactical structure and...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What excites primary pupils about writing in school and what switches them off? This was the question explored by one Cambridgeshire primary school in a classroom-based investigation focusing on...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Careful examination of written stories reveals that poor spellers restrict their vocabulary and their syntax to avoid words they cannot spell, giving quite a wrong impression of their...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'The English cannot spell because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants - and not all of them - have any agreed speech value.' So...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is not intended to be a series of handy hints on choosing between specific brands of microcomputers or different word processing programs. That sort of information is best obtained from...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A flowchart can describe what happens when we set out to copy a sentence; the factors and skills which operate during this task. The model is not about 'meaning' or 'word choice' or 'self-expression...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Essays written in a 'good hand' get better marks than those written in a 'poor' hand. That was discovered over 50 years ago. Perhaps the computer will eradicate the influence of handwriting on the...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article