Publications

Publication details [#37337]

Connors, Robert J. and Andrea A. Lunsford. 1992. Exorcising demonolatry: Spelling patterns and pedagogies in college writing. Written Communication 9 (3) : 404–428.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | instruction manual | spelling | writing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study presents a historical analysis of spelling instruction, comments on a 1986 large-scale analysis of spelling errors in student essays, and discusses the impact of word processing and spell-checking on student spelling.