Why Are Some Texts Good and Others Not? Relationship Between Text Quality and Management of the Writing Processes

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-428

  Beauvais, Caroline ^a,b   Olive, Thierry ^a,b   Passerault, Jean Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Narrative; Text production; Text quality; Writing strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957853659     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022545     Document Type: Article

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