Assessment of planning, translating, and revising in junior high writers

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-52

  Whitaker, Dianne ^b   Feng, Yuen ^b   Swanson, H L ^b   Abbott, Robert D ^b   Berninger, Virginia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Writing assessment; Writing interventions; Writing processes; Writing, gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 16144366462     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-4405(95)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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