Re: Responding to problematic writing

["MULLIN ANNE" <MULLANNE@AD.isu.edu>]

Pam -- Besides Mina Shaughnessy's Errors and Expectations, a useful 
group of articles that I find myself going back to again and again in 
tutor training appeared in the first issue of the Journal of Basic 
Writing -- Spring '75: "Error's Endless Train" by Patricia Laurence;  
Valerie Krishna's "The Syntax of Error," and  Barbara Quint Gray's 
"Dialect Interference in Writing: A Tripartate Analysis."  David 
Bartholomae's  "the Study of Error" is always cited; (CCC Oct. of 
1980); Kroll and Schafer's "Error Analysis and the Teaching of 
Composition is another good one (CCC, Oct. 1978), as is Mary Epes' 
"Tracing Errors to Their Source" (Journal of Basic Writing, No. 4 -- 
fall (I think) 1985).  The research for these studies is primarily 
with basic writers , but the analysis of their problems applies, I've 
found,  to all writers -- with differences a matter of degree more 
than kind.