Teaching Stylistic Simplicity with a Computerized Readability Formula

Helen J. Schwartz

A study was conducted to test whether quantitative feedback would help students write with the stylistic simplicity appropriate to their audience and purpose without sacrificing other elements of good writing. Two business and technical writing...

Computer Aids for Individualizing Instruction throughout the Writing Process

Helen J. Schwartz

This document describes how computer assisted instruction and word processing can combine the systematic coverage of a writing class with the individualization of a writing workshop. Ways to revise computer programs for use in a writing course are...

Issues of Integrating Computers into Writing Instruction

Helen J. Schwartz

Computers can provide four kinds of help to practicing writers: (1) data storage and retrieval, (2) computer-assisted instruction and text feedback, (3) utility or word processing programs, and (4) telecommunications capability. Writing teachers...

21st-Century Citizen Scholars: Testing What Is Possible and Desirable

Helen J. Schwartz

A pilot program at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), called the Twenty-First Century Citizen Scholars, explores and evaluates the pedagogy of computer conferencing in writing-across-the-curriculum and makes sure of equal...

Literacy Theory in the Classroom: Computers in Literature and Writing

Helen J. Schwartz

Computers and Composition Vol. 7, No. 1 (1989) pp. 49–63

Illustrates how the following educational goals are being reached with existing software and hardware: integrating reading and writing instruction; providing a new sense of community among readers; and encouraging a shared exploration of cultural...

Hypothesis Testing with Computer-Assisted Instruction

Helen J. Schwartz

Educational Technology Vol. 23, No. 10 (1983) pp. 26–27

Describes the components of SEEN, a computer program which provides an environment that prompts the user to create, support, and test an hypothesis, and its applications in an introductory world literature and an art history course. (MBR)

Pricing Literacy: The Ethics of Access

Helen J. Schwartz

Computers are necessary to the future of literacy in the United States, but they are not determinative. Instead the determining factor will be human values and political will, and so it is necessary to build the future on democratic ideology. Four...

The Student as Producer and Consumer of Text: Computer Uses in English Studies

Helen J. Schwartz

Journal of Teaching Writing Vol. 7, No. 1 (1988) pp. 57–66

Argues that computers offer a means of integrating literary analysis, imaginative writing, and expository writing by both professional and student writers. (JAD)

A Computer Program for Invention and Feedback

Helen J. Schwartz

SEEN (Seeing Eye Elephant Network) is a computer program intended to help students write better essays by providing a heuristic for invention and a means for audience feedback. In the solo mode, the program prompts students to perceive what they...

The Computer Medium in Writing for Discovery

Helen J. Schwartz; Christine Y. Fitzpatrick; Brian A. Huot

Computers and Composition Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994) pp. 137–49

Asks undergraduate students to respond to a series of questions by hand and using a word processor. Finds that some students felt profoundly disadvantaged writing by hand, and students who felt uncomfortable on the computer wrote longer and better...