The Effects of Writing on Students' Understanding of Literary Texts.

This study examined the effects of three writing tasks (restricted writing, personal analytic writing, and formal analytic writ- ing) on students' written products, writing processes, and later under- standing of short stories. One experienced teacher of English and 80 students enrolled in three sections of an eleventh-grade American lit- erature course participated in the research. In the first stage of the study, observational and case study...