Analysis of the effect of networking on computer-assisted collaborative writing in a fifth grade classroom

Abstract

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Effects of Audience Awareness on Procedural Text Writing

“…First, effects of audience awareness were examined using readers' performance as a measure to evaluate the quality of written texts. In most previous studies, expert readers evaluated written texts based on persuasiveness, clarity, thematic salience, explicitness, or overall quality (e.g., Allen & Thompson, 1995;Gallini & Helman, 1995). These evaluations by expert readers are valid, reliable, and concise.…”