Pencil and paper versus word processing: A comparative study of creative writing in the elementary school

Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-166

  Nichols, Lois Mayer ^a  

^a Holy Trinity School   (United States)

Author keywords

Keyboarding; Language arts; Word processing; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007875128     PISSN: 08886504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08886504.1996.10782192     Document Type: Article

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