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Hillocks's meta-analysis found task-specific composing instruction the most effective focus contrasted

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q3 i? A meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies from 1963-1983 concluded that instruction teaching writers task-specific composing procedures was the most effective of the focuses contrasted. → Smagorinsky 1992

Evidence

Smagorinsky 1992

Smagorinsky, P., & Smith, M. W. (1992). The Nature of Knowledge in Composition and Literary Understanding: The Question of Specificity. Review of Educational Research, 62(3), 279-305. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543062003279

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The review reports Hillocks's meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies conducted from 1963-1983, which found the task-specific focus most effective. No effect size is printed in the review's report.

"Hillocks concludes from his meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies conducted from 1963-1983 (1984, 1986a, 1987) that an instructional focus that teaches writers task-specific composing procedures is the most effective of the focuses contrasted."

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title Hillocks's meta-analysis found task-specific composing instruction the most effective focus contrasted
description Hillocks's meta-analysis found task-specific composing instruction the most effective focus contrasted
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newest_evidence 1992
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