Re: Feedback and revision

[Byron Stay <stay@msmary.edu>]

Geez, Jim.  You really dug into the archives for that one.  If memory
serves me correctly (and it's dissipating more each day), that was Vol IV
of the WCJ.  I had sort of hoped it had long been forgotten.  

	It discussed an attempt during my early years as a faculty member
to do quantitative research in the WC.  As a quantitative study I think
it's very flawed, but it probably gets at some basic truths about writing
centers--that they help students to revise globally in a way that simply
putting comments on student papers won't.

	Now I've really been dated.

	Byron

Byron L. Stay
Associate Dean of the College
Mount St. Mary's College
Emmitsburg, MD  21727
301-447-4006
301-447-5755 (fax)
STAY@MSMARY.EDU

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jim Bell wrote:

> Fifteen years ago, a fellow many of us know (Byron
> Stay) published an article in Writing Center
> Journal on feedback and revision. Using Witte And
> Faigley's taxonomy to analyze changes between
> drafts, Byron showed that in Mt. St. Mary's
> writing center under certain conditions the
> students made far more macro-level changes to
> drafts than would have been predicted from
> research on freshmen writing on their own. They
> revised much more like experienced writers than
> like failing first-year students.
> 
> This seems to me a superb type of study for
> writing centers to conduct.
> 
> Do you know of any similar studies?
> -- 
> Jim Bell
> Editor, Journal of College Reading and Learning
> Coordinator, Learning Skills Centre
> University of Northern BC
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