--- abstract: | The study reports an analysis of the drafts produced by two groups of students during an exam. Drafts were categorized as a function of some of their graphic features (e.g. their length), and of their different planning strategies used for their production (e.g. note draft, organized draft, composed draft). Grades obtained by the students on their essays related to the different categories of drafts. Results show that 2/3 of both groups of students made some kinds of draft. Drafts mostly consisted of note drafts or long composed drafts. Very few consisted of organized drafts. However, students that wrote these latter drafts obtained the best ratings. Drafting strategy was homogeneous for half of the students who used one category. The other half successively used two drafting modes. In that case they mostly associated writing with jotting down notes or with some marks of organization. Here, again, students who organized, even partially, their drafts obtained the highest grades. Very few corrections were brought to the long drafts and they concerned the surface (spelling or lexicon), not the content or the plan. This research shows that only a limited number of students used an efficient drafting (organized draft) even though such a strategy is generally associated with the highest ratings. altloc: - http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/wpsycle/documentpdf/documentpiolat/Publications/PiolatRousseyLInst1996.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Piolat given: A honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Roussey given: JY honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1996 date_type: published datestamp: 2004-05-06 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/36/18 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3618 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3618/1/PiolatRousseyLInst1996.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Drafting strategies, note draft, organized draft, composed draft, writing rate' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:33 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 1 pagerange: 111-129 pubdom: FALSE publication: Learning and Instruction publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:52:17 subjects: - appl-cog-psy - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Students' drafting strategies and text quality type: journalp userid: 4333 volume: 6