Archive for July 25th, 2008
Learning from the Lunsfords’ “Mistakes”
A new national study on errors in student writing asks whether the top mistakes noted in previous studies have changed much in the digital era.
OMG! Turns out students aren’t making significantly more errors, rising from 2.11 mistakes per 100 words in a 1917 study to 2.45 in this 2006 data.
The big shift, though, [...]
Posted: 25 July, 2008 in Uncategorized.
Tags: composition, Lunsford, writing from sources, writing instruction
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