Abstract
Deming and Gowen (1989) conducted a study during the 1989 winter quarter at a suburban junior college to examine the association between gender, writing processes, and the written products of 33 male and female basic college freshmen writers. Students were administered the Daly and Miller Writing Anxiety Scale (1975), and wrote two drafts, one on a reflexive topic, and the other, on an extensive one (Perl, 1980). Topics were randomly assigned with one topic concerned with discipline of children and the other with the importance of friendship in school. Students were interviewed concerning their writing processes and topic preferences. Sixty‐six drafts were analyzed for length, time of production, pronoun usage, and examples of advice giving. The results of the study confirmed the work of earlier researchers and contributed new information. College basic female writers used more first person pronouns than males, and both genders used fewer pronouns when writing extensive essays. Males used “you” more often...
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