Research on Written Composition

New directions for teaching. From Introduction: In a narrow operational sense, George Hillocks reports on studies that have been prepared more carefully than those of the 1940s and 1950s. Possibly researchers have simply become more fastidious in writing their reports, and possibly they have been more careful in designing studies. Whatever the cause, the more recent studies are persuasive simply because the researchers seem to take themselves more seriously. the work stand sup under examination.