Black Student Writers, Storks, and Familiar Places : What Can We Learn from the National Assessment of Educational Progress? / Geneva Smitherman and Sandra Wright.

Using data consisting of descriptive and expressive-narrative essays written in 1969 and 1979 by black 17-year-old students in the stratified probability sample from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a study investigated which language patterns differentiated the NAEP essays wr...

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Main Authors:	Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-, Wright, Sandra (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1984.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Black Students. Comparative Analysis. Dialect Studies. Language Patterns. Language Research. Language Usage. Longitudinal Studies. Secondary Education. Sentence Structure. Writing Evaluation. Writing Improvement. Writing Research. Writing Skills. National Assessment of Educational Progress Reports, Research. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Genre:	Reports, Research. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Physical Description:	33 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book