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A study diagnosed the nature of different text production abilities of Swiss grade 5 and grade 9 students, and of adults, and diagnosed good and poor writers ' differences within each of these three age groups. Subjects, 36 in all, were uniformly divided between 11- and 15-year-cdd students from the Bernese secondary school and high school teachers. The 12 subjects of each age group were made up of six good and six poor text writers. Each subject worked with an additional person as a pair. Each pair was given the task of writing an article about the art and personage of a well-known Swiss iron-sculptor. The "tutor " guided the "tutee" through the task of writing the text. The tutee had to follow the tutor's advice and w., responsible for the formulation and writing down of the surface structure sentences. Subjects were videotaped as they wrote the text. Results indi.:ated that the most dominant facto