Evaluation and teachers' perceptions of gender in sixth-grade student writing

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-208

  Peterson, Shelley ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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