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Title	An investigation into the use of computerized word processng procedures in a process-conference approach to writing by grade five students
Author	Stewart, Robert Graeme
Description	Thesis (M.Ed.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. Education
Date	1987
Pagination	viii, 122 leaves
Subject	Children--Writing--Study and teaching; Language arts (Elementary); English language--Composition and exercises;
Degree	M.Ed.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faculty of Education
Discipline	Education
Language	Eng
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 116-122.
Abstract	An investigation was carried out to determine whether ten-year old students who are able to use a word processor and who have been exposed to the process-conference approach to teaching writing do indeed use the capabilities of the word processor to make higher level revision in their written work instead of superficial revisions. -- The level of revisions in three writing assignments was compared to other factors such as age, ability, typing speed, and facility with the use of the Bank Street Writer word processing program in order to determine the relationship of these factors for the extent children revise their written work. -- A case study approach involving the observation of thirty-one grade five students was followed. The children's revision strategies were mapped through a focus on one child, a more peripheral study of three other children and informal observations and product analysis of twenty-seven other students. -- This study lends support to the findings of others that limited exposure to the use of a word processor does not in itself result in young writers making high level revisions to their written work.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	75411123
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(17.81 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Stewart_RobertGraeme.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	327575.cpd