Topic: Research Abstracts

10-second reviews: Revising, e-mail and teachers’ comments on student papers.

Abstracts:

Demonstrates that having readers interpret a writer’s text by reading it aloud can assist the writer in revising the text. B. Sitko, 1993, 432. ………. E-mail correspondences more resembled face-to-face conversations than written communication. Y Wang, 1993, 433. ………. Constructs a framework for classifying teachers’ comments on students’ writing, then illustrates the proposed system by examining one teacher’s comments on papers from several students on a variety of assignments. M Sperling, 1944, 434.

Source: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Research in the Teaching of English (December 1994), 418-436.