Revision of Texts With Word-Processing

Nuvoli, Gianfranco

doi:10.2466/pr0.87.7.1139-1146

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“…The availability of digital sources often makes drafting a fi rst version of a text easier, although Nuvoli (2000) showed that primary school students had more diffi culty in drafting with the computer than with pen and paper. Copying and pasting (from) sources might facilitate the production of texts but requires, at the same time, more effort and higher abilities to check coherence of ideas in the text in the revision phase ( Oliver, 2004 ).…”

Section: Changing Concepts Of Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing.

Rijlaarsdam¹,

Bergh²,

Couzijn³

et al. 2012

APA Educational Psychology Handbook, Vol 3: Application to Learning and Teaching.

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Learning to write and using writing for communication and learning are not natural activities, such as learning to speak. They require a great deal of schooling. The kind of schooling that teachers offer novices or more advanced writers has changed over time.The history of writing education starts in ancient Greece at about 500 BC, where writing was a part of both rhetoric education and of more elementary schooling for clerks and other craftsmen who needed a certain technical writing ability to record information for trade and administrative purposes ( Murphy, 2001 ). It was not until the installation of the public school system in the 19th century that writing education started to gain mass. Utensils such as blackboard and chalk, stylus, slate, and pencil or pen then gained popularity in classrooms. Until the second half of the 20th century, the purpose of writing instruction was mainly to teach mechanics and conventions: handwriting, sentence construction (grammar), spelling, and punctuation. In the past half century, writing teachers began to pay more attention to text, content, style, and creativity.Another change that occurred in the past 50 years is the transition from product-oriented to process-oriented writing instruction, stimulated by researchers such as Britton, Moffett, Emig, and Graves in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, at the beginning of the 1980s cognitive psychologists such as Young, Hayes, and Flower started to perceive writing as a problem-solving activity. This led to the design and validation of writing process models, with the specifi c aim of applying the acquired insights as tools for teaching writing. The process A Short Overview of Some Insights From ResearchConstituting process variables to predict text quality. From the Hayes and Flower model (1980) , Breetvelt and colleagues distilled the main subprocesses in think-aloud protocols of 15-year-olds writing documented argumentative essays

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Section: Changing Concepts Of Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing.

Rijlaarsdam¹,

Bergh²,

Couzijn³

et al. 2012

APA Educational Psychology Handbook, Vol 3: Application to Learning and Teaching.

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“…Our review of the literature suggested that one area where the response format (i.e., computer entry of responses versus handwritten) might be expected to result in differences was in the essay length. Studies on the effects of word processors on writing, for example, have shown that computers can result in longer written responses (Handley-More, Deitz, Billingsley, & Coggins, 2003;Nuvoli, 2000;Peterson, 1993;Li Nim-Yu, 1990). One-way GLM ANOVAs, however, did not indicate significant differences in word counts for either notes (F(1, 209) D 1.262, p D .262) or essays (F(1, 209) D .111, p D .740) between Study 1 and Study 2.…”

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Stance, Navigation, and Reader Response in Expository Hypertext

McEneaney¹,

Li²,

Allen³

et al. 2009

Journal of Literacy Research

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This article reports on two studies investigating reader stance, navigation, and response in expository hypertext. Subjects in the studies included 69 and 147 adult readers prompted to adopt either an efferent or aesthetic stance when reading a 36-node expository hypertext. Reading was followed by recall and essay writing tasks. Results of the studies indicate that prompts can be designed to induce readers to adopt more efferent or aesthetic stances. Main effects for stance on navigation and the essay response measures were found. Aesthetic readers were found to attain higher levels of understanding and tended to rely more heavily on a built-in reading path that was part of the hypertext interface. Graphic analyses revealed wide variability in the navigational strategies of readers, with distinctive visual patterns that appeared to be related to reader stance. Exploratory analyses examining data collapsed across both studies suggest node size may play a role in navigation and response and may interact with reader stance. The studies suggest that navigation has an important role in online literacy transactions and that usability of online materials may be enhanced by accounting for reader variables such as stance in the design of interface elements.

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“…Some research has shown that word processing can remove some of the difficulties young children encounter when they write by hand (Chang & Osguthorpe, 1990). On the other hand, Nuvoli's (2000) research into the use of a word processor to improve primary children's writing and revising found that children had greater difficulty drafting their texts with computers than with handwriting. Computer programs that provide prompts assist young writers in being more strategic (Cochran-Smith, 1991;Daiute, 1986;Jones, 1994).…”

Section: Technology and Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research in Writing, Preschool Through Elementary, 1983-2003

Chapman¹

2006

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

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Revision of Texts With Word-Processing

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Stance, Navigation, and Reader Response in Expository Hypertext

Research in Writing, Preschool Through Elementary, 1983-2003

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