A survey of prevalent composition errors in college-preparatory English at New Castle Senior High School : [an honors thesis (HONRS 499)]

I propose to define the errors: of composition and study their frequency in the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth-grade college-preparatory English classes at New Castle Senior High School, New Castle, Indiana. The primary aim would be to note any decrease in the frequency of errors in compositions spanning the four grade levels of a high school English curriculum.The prevalence of composition errors at various grade levels in high school should ideally follow a pattern showing a decrease. A study of their frequency would support or refute this supposition. Regardless of the outcome, graphs or charts showing error-frequency would be valuable in illustrating the "trouble-spots"' in high school English composition. It would further aid in pointing out those areas that need special emphasis in teaching composition in the public high school.