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Peer reviewedButler, Sydney – English Quarterly, 1981
Outlines a program in journal writing and self-assessment for college students. (AEA)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Higher Education, Prewriting, Program Descriptions
Arms, Valarie – 1984
This document describes a software program, CREATE, which was developed at Drexel University to guide students in creating English compositions. A second program, ReCREATE, guides students in reading their finished papers and making global revisions. CREATE asks 20 questions that a teacher might ask a student in a pre-writing conference. Unlike…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Landsburg, David; Witt, Stanley – Innovation Abstracts, 1984
A writing-across-the-curriculum program has been initiated at the East Campus of Pima Community College in an effort to improve student literacy. The program operates in the following manner: (1) faculty in all disciplines on campus are asked to get involved in the program, those who participate being paid a one-time fee of $100 for their efforts;…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
Koeppel, Mary Sue – 1983
The writing lab at a Florida two-year technical institute is designed to help students fulfill the writing requirements for their technical degree programs. In the lab, developmental students take composition courses that may be substituted for traditionally required composition courses in their programs. Some students take additional writing…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Descriptions
Hawkins, Mary Louise; Marshall, Jon C. – 1981
Based on a writing program evaluation project that took place in the Ferguson-Florissant School District in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, this booklet provides administrators and policymakers with a plan for evaluating their own writing programs and also provides results of the Ferguson-Florissant evaluation. The first chapter contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Program Descriptions
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1996
Designed to provide teachers with ideas and resources that make it possible to nourish and build upon the skills of young writers, this guide deals with effective writing instruction within the elementary school and using the writing process with primary children. The guide addresses issues related to, and provides suggestions for, the teaching of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1982
After providing a synthesis of research on the teaching of writing, this booklet offers summaries of writing programs in Washington State. Included are descriptions of (1) the Kettle Falls Secondary Language Arts Project, (2) the Kettle Falls rating scale for student writing, (3) Project WRITE, (4) the Puget Sound Writing Program, (5) the Edmonds…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Content Area Writing, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education
Busching, Beverly – 1989
The broad context of curriculum planning, staff development, and administrative decision making is the focus of this handbook for developing school writing programs. The guidelines and activities included in this handbook are meant to be suggestive; the ideas presented in this handbook will, in most cases, need to be shaped to suit the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Process Approach (Writing), Program Administration
Bay Shore School District, NY. Office of Instructional Services. – 1983
A description and supporting materials of the elementary school writing program of the Bay Shore Public Schools (New York) are presented. The description and materials include: (1) the program philosophy; (2) a review of writing research including a 12-point summary of methods for teaching writing and a 10-point summary of the proper classroom…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Petrosky, Anthony R., Ed.; Bartholomae, David, Ed. – 1986
Intended for composition teachers and researchers, as well as those involved with educational issues apart from the writing community (legislators, administrators, researchers in other fields, parents), this book contains essays that take a critical step beyond the standard arguments of the profession, pushing hard for example, at some of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Neuleib, Janice, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1983
Focusing on the topic of composition, especially in the state of Illinois, this special journal issue begins with a description of the Illinois Articulation Project, a network developed to share and coordinate writing in the state. The second article describes Illinois State University's National Endowment for the Humanities program for…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1984
Noting that in order to introduce and maintain writing across the curriculum programs in the schools English teachers must unite with colleagues to stress learning of all kinds, and that recommendations for the use of writing in content areas do not frighten away students who are apprehensive about writing, the articles in this focused journal…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Stansfield, Charles W., Ed. – 1986
This collection of essays on measurement theory and language testing includes: "Computerized Adaptive Testing: Implications for Language Test Developers" (Peter Tung); "The Promise and Threat of Computerized Adaptive Assessment of Reading Comprehension" (Michael Canale); "Computerized Rasch Analysis of Item Bias in ESL…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software
