Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 17, No. 3, October 1983

Table of Contents

• Textual Analysis with Computers: Tests of Bell Laboratories' Computer Software

• Cohesion and Textual Coherence

  Robert J. Tierney and James H. Mosenthal

• Identifying and Validating the Constituents of Literary Response through a Modification of the Response Preference Measure

  Jane Ann Zaharias and Maia Pank Mertz

• An Instrument for Reporting Composition Course and Teacher Effectiveness in College Writing Programs

  Stephen P. Witte, John A. Daly, Lester Faigley, and William R. Koch

• Toward Determining a Minimal Competency Entrance Examination for Freshman Composition

  Donna Gorrell

• Teaching Defining Strategies as a Mode of Inquiry: Some Effects on Student Writing

  George Hillocks, Jr., Elizabeth A. Kahn, and Larry R. Johannessen

• Direct and Indirect Measurement of Effects of Specific Instruction: Evidence from Sentence Combining

  William L. Smith and Glynda A. Hull

• Direct and Indirect Measures for Large-Scale Evaluation of Writing

  L. Ramon Veal and Sally Ann Hudson

• Book Review: Research Within Reach: Oral and Written Communication

  Lee Galda

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