The Influence of The Task Upon Writing Performance

In an effort to determine whether two different topics (a writing task with general information provided and a writing task with narrowly defined specific information provided) will elicit different qualities and syntactic characteristics of writing from a sample of upper college level students, this study raised three major questions: (a) do the two different topics significantly affect students' writing performance in the syntactic characteristics and quality ratings in a testing situation? (b) are the topic effects consistent across different groups of writers (different native-language groups and different academic-major groups)? and (c) do the relationships among different measures of writing skill remain stable across the two different topics?

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Park, Young Mok

• Education, Language and Literature

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8711849

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69106