Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Professional Journals on Writing 28

How measure quality in writing? Predictors of quality in writing: density of modification in paragraphs; absence of run-on sentences. P DiStefano & R Marzano in RL Larson. College Composition and Communication (May 79), 200.

How should students prepare for writing? Rhetorical situation: Why are you writing? Who is your audience? What is the occasion? What is your purpose? What is the means of publication? What particular constraints seem to be operating? Students must complete the “rhetorical situation” before turning in papers. LS Ede. College Composition and Communication (Oct. 79)

How can teachers help their students learn to write? Teachers should review and comment on preliminary drafts. W U McDonald, Jr. College Composition and Communication (May 78), 167-170.

How should students prepare for writing? Some writers seem to work more in their head, and others more on paper. DM Murray. College Composition and Communication (Dec. 78), 377.

How can students become more conscious of their writing process? Students keep diaries in which they reflect on their writing processes. S Crowley. College Composition and Communication (May 77), 166-169.

How should students prepare for writing? Heuristics are lists of questions about topics that enable students to produce information on the topic and prepare them to write compositions on the topic. JM Lauer. College Composition and Communication (Oct. 79), 268-269.

What are the processes that writers in all fields use in producing their writing? We have interviews with imaginative writers about the writing process, but rarely interviews with science writers, business writers, political writers, journalists, ghost writers, legal writers, medical writers—examples of effective writers who use language to inform and persuade. DM Murray. College Composition and Communication (Dec. 78), 380.

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