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The Composing Process and Pedagogy, or A "How-To" on Describing an Item.
Roundy, Nancy – Technical Writing Teacher, 1982
Describes a pedagogical approach to teaching composition, based on research indicating that inexperienced writers have undeveloped composing processes. Presents a sample lesson for describing an item that gives technical writing students knowledge of how they write and introduces them to strategies for mastering the composing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education, Skill Development
Conversations with Strangers. Ideas about Writing for Adult Students.
Gardener, Sue Shrapnel – 1985
This package is intended to assist tutors who are working to improve their adult students' writing skills. It is divided into three parts. The first part, which focuses on the process of writing, includes 13 units in which tutors can explore writing work, either with small groups or individual students. The units, each of which includes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing
Frankenstein. Greenfield Express Management System.
1983
Designed to develop students' abilities to follow directions and organize and write their thoughts, this junior high level activity involves students in creating a dream person using magazine or catalog pictures and then writing a biography of this person. Materials include teacher notes, follow-up suggestions, evaluation procedure, and a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Biographies, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
Curriculum Guide: The Basics of Writing.
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Ports, Kim; Mills, Carol J. – 1988
This curriculum guide is designed to aid in the planning and execution of a writing course for verbally gifted elementary school students. The course is designed for students ranging in age from 8-11 years whose verbal reasoning skills are at least 3 years above grade level. The course instructs students in the fundamentals of communication…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Curriculum Design, Descriptive Writing
Paragraph Writing Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit III.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on paragraph writing, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of descriptive, narrative,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
New Ways in Teaching Writing. New Ways in TESOL Series: Innovative Classroom Techniques.
White, Ronald V., Ed. – 1995
This book presents a range of activities for writing instruction that develop different composing skills, attend to the social processes of reading and writing, involve the peer group in evaluating and responding to drafts, focus on different types and formats of writing, and stimulate these activities through diverse techniques and methods. The…
Descriptors: Biographies, Business Communication, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques