The Write Occasion. Collaborative Research Study No. 1 [microform] / Patrick Woodworth and Catharine Keech
- Bib ID:
- 5394633
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Woodworth, Patrick
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED198534
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980
- 78 p.
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Produced as part of a collaborative research project in which classroom teachers teamed with university-based research assistants to explore questions raised by the teachers in the course of their work with students, this monograph deals with the issue of "occasion." Following a review of theory and research about aspects of occasion that seem to affect student performance, the second section of the monograph describes a particular writing experience that produced outstanding writing and offers insights into reasons for the assignment's success. It also offers writing samples produced by students at different levels of ability and motivation. The third section of the monograph reports on a research project undertaken to discover whether performance on a writing test could be improved by specifying the audience and how a test occasion might be affected by different audience conditions. The fourth section compares the test writing that students did for the research project with the writing they had completed for their English class during the year. It also looks at the question of how a "sense of occasion" might influence performance and how teachers might best create good writing occasions. Appendixes include samples of student writing, three versions of a writing topic, and sample test papers showing holistic scores and analytic ratings. (HOD)
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- Availability: Publications Department, Bay Area Writing Project, 5635 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 ($3.00 postage and handling).
- Sponsoring Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC.
- Sponsoring Agency: Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.
- ERIC Note: Prepared by the Bay Area Writing Project.
- Educational level discussed: High Schools.
- Educational level discussed: Secondary Education.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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