Challenging the Task

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Writer(s): 
Liz Hamp-Lyons, The University of Michigan

Dan Horowitz was well-known for his research into essay
examination prompts, and was greatly respected for the intellectual
clarity of his work and for his humanistic grounding of that
work in the central questions facing practitioners in ESL classrooms
in colleges and universities. In this paper I review some of
the work that has been done on prompt effects in ESL writing at the
college or college preparatory level, focusing on just one small
aspect in an attempt to move our work in this area toward a better
general understanding. While I do not make explicit reference to
Dan's work in the text, the collegial dialogue we maintained is an
important underpinning of the paper.

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