-ERIC_NO-
  ED347524
-TITLE-
  Computer Networks: Creating Real Audiences for Students'
Writing. Report No. 15.;
-AUTHOR-
  "Cohen, Moshe; Riel, Margaret";
-LANGUAGE-
  English;
-DESCRIPTORS-
Computer_Uses_in_Education
Foreign_Countries
Grade_7
Junior_High_Schools
Writing_Exercises
Writing_Instruction
Writing_Research
Audience_Awareness
Computer_Networks
Information_Networks
Writing_Evaluation
Writing_Skills
-IDENTIFIERS-
  Childrens Writing;
  Israel;
-ABSTRACT-
  "A study examined the effect of a computer network which was
designed to create a functional learning environment to engage students 
in writing as a communicative act with a real audience. Subjects, 44 
seventh-grade Israeli students, wrote an essay as part of their regular 
midterm examination and, a week later, wrote another essay for their 
peers, intended for transmission through an international newswire 
service to a network of computers located in Virginia. Students wrote 
their essays in Hebrew without the use of computers. The essays for the 
network were then translated into Spanish or English for the 
computer-linked audience. Results indicated that student essays written 
for a real audience (their peers) were better organized and dealt with 
the content in a more informative and elaborate fashion than did the 
essays written for the exam. (Two tables of data are included; 57 
references are attached.) (RS)";
-GEOG_SOURCE-
  "U.S.; California";
-CLEARINGHOUSE_NO-
  CS211862;
-INSTITUTION_NAME-
  California Univ., La Jolla. Center for Human
Information Processing.;
-PUBLICATION_TYPE-
  143;
-PUBLICATION_DATE-
1986
-EDRS_PRICE-
  EDRS Price - MF01/PC02 Plus Postage.;