Writing to Study and Learn [microform] / Judith A. Langer
- Bib ID:
- 5494005
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Langer, Judith A
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED297316
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 58 p.
- Summary:
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Two studies examined the effects of writing on subject learning. For the first study, 322 ninth and eleventh grade students read passages from high school social studies and science texts and engaged in six writing-to-study conditions. Students who wrote essays scored lower on immediate topic knowledge posttests, while the students who used study methods other than essay writing had the greatest gains on the immediate posttest, but also the greatest falling off at the 4-week posttest. The second study focused on the relationship between what writers do during different writing tasks and recall. Ninth and eleventh graders (N=110) read two passages from the first study and engaged in four writing-to-study tasks. Findings indicated that the writing conditions led to greater recall of content than the non-writing condition, and that the more the content was manipulated during writing, the better it was recalled. Together, both studies indicate that tasks such as question answering and notetaking involve a superficial manipulation of content and lead to extensive but short-lived learning, while the analytic writing tasks involve a greater depth of processing and lead to longer term learning of a smaller band of information. (Author/SRT)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: NIE-G-82-0027.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Stanford Univ., CA. School of Education
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- ERIC
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Publication date:
- 1986
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