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Peer reviewedSchiller, David – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Describes a test to determine students' understanding of poetry that avoids the difficulties of objective tests and involves the students with poetry on the test. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essay Tests, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Peer reviewedDietrich, Julia C. – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Presents a method for helping students learn to evaluate data, draw conclusions, and state a most probable hypothesis in writing essays. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Sallyanne H. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: College. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: When I first began as a college composition instructor, I gave a standard explanation that definition was necessary if students wished to argue logically or to explain an unfamiliar subject. I showed examples of definitions, discussed ones in the text, and then sent…
Descriptors: College English, Definitions, Essays, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCoe, Richard – Exercise Exchange, 1975
Presents guidelines for teaching high school and college students how to write essay tests in English. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Essay Tests, Guidelines
Peer reviewedKing, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
Peer reviewedWess, Robert C. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
Describes an essay writing assignment that combines points from R. D. Kepes' futuristic point of view and V. E. Frankl's real life projections. (FL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Peer reviewedBrownell, Thomas – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Describes the evolution of a final examination for a writing course emphasizing the process approach, student conferences, and revision through successive drafts. Discusses student responses to the new exam format and includes one student's exam essay. (HTH)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High Schools, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedKurata, Marilyn – Exercise Exchange, 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: At my university, students are required to take a two course sequence in freshman composition, EH 101 and EH 102. EH 101 covers six basic essay forms utilizing description, narration, process description, classification, comparison/contrast, and argument. Because EH 101 is a basic, required course,…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
