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Reading empirical research studies : the rhetoric of research

Print Book, English, 1992
Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., 1992
565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780805810301, 9780805810318, 0805810307, 0805810315
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What happens when our students read, and what can we do about it? / Russell A. Hunt
The art of rhetoric at the Amphiareion of Oropos / Richard Leo Enos
This was an easy assignment : examining how students interpret academic writing tasks / Jennie Nelson
"Shared information" : some observations of communication in Japanese technical settings / Christina Haas and Jeffrey L. Funk
Designing for the real world : using research to turn a "target audience" into real people / Michael Floriak
The achievement of preschool literacy for mother and child / Shirley Brice Heath with Charlene Thomas
The frequency and placement of topic sentences in expository prose / Richard Braddock
The frequency and placement of main ideas in children's social studies textbooks : a modified replication of Braddock's research on topic sentences / James F. Bauman and Judith K. Serra. Expertise in news writing / Gary Schumacher [and others]
The importance of teacher knowledge in college composition placement testing / William L. Smith
How characteristics of student essays influence teachers' evaluations ; Why do teachers give the grades they do? / Sarah Warshauer Freedman
Redefining revision for freshmen / David L. Wallace and John R. Hayes
Cooperative writing : direct effects and transfer / Angela M. O'Donnell [and others]
Developmental differences in response to a story / Richard Beach and Linda Wendler
The effects of observational activities on student writing / George Hillocks, Jr
Investigating the control of writing skills / Robert J. Bracewell
Discourse synthesis : creating texts from texts / Nancy Nelson Spivey. The notion of giftedness and student expectations about writing / Michael Palmquist and Richard E. Young