Revision conditions offering more reader insight produced contrasting benefits for young writers' descriptive revision¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2004 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The study contrasted three revision conditions that varied in the amount of reader insight they offered: feedback only, rating-as-the-reader, and reading-as-the-reader. → Holliway 2004

Evidence¶

Holliway 2004¶

Holliway, D.R., McCutchen, D. (2004). Audience Perspective in Young Writers' Composing and Revising. In: Allal, L., Chanquoy, L., Largy, P. (eds) Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes. Studies in Writing, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1048-1_6

q3 · i? · causal · r?

The study's design as announced in the abstract: a comparison of three revision conditions — "feedback only", "ratingther" (rating-as-the-reader), and "reading-as-the-reader" — manipulated to vary reader insight. The available text does not print condition-level statistics.

"We investigated the contrasting benefits of three revision conditions that varied in the amount of reader insight they offered."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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