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Peer reviewedFulwiler, Toby; Petersen, Bruce – College English, 1981
Facetiously examines heuristics in mumbling, staring, moving, doodling, and noise that can be used by writing teachers to help their writing students with rhetorical invention. (RL)
Descriptors: Prewriting, Problem Solving, Questioning Techniques, Student Development
Peer reviewedSalvatori, Mariolina – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1983
Writing teachers can enable students to think critically by teaching composition courses according to two principles: sequencing and revision. The teaching of a basic reading and writing course for college freshmen illustrates how writing, taught from a discovery perspective and in conjunction with selected readings, can develop students' ability…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Higher Education, Learning Processes
O'Brien-Palmer, Michelle – 1997
This book is designed to help students in elementary school identify core literary concepts such as character development, setting development, and plot development in the books they read, then integrate what they have learned into their own writing. The underlying assumption is that the reader is somewhat familiar with the 5-step writing process:…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Graphic Organizers
Download full textRubenstein, Susanne – 1998
This book is intended for middle and high school teachers who are committed to the process-writing model and are eager to encourage their students in the last step of the process--publication. The book offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities that help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market, and it…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
Peer reviewedKarras, Ray W. – OAH Magazine of History, 1996
Outlines a step-by-step process through which students can construct, defend, and test historical arguments. These include to support the claim with facts and analyze their relevance, to oppose the claim with additional facts, to rebut this claim with additional facts, and to ask for new information to test the claim. (MJP)
Descriptors: Credibility, Educational Strategies, Historiography, History
Alexander, John; Cullen, Roxanne – 1990
A 1985 study of students at Ferris State University (Michigan) found that the majority of freshmen improve their writing abilities from their beginning English course to the end of their freshman year, with ability levels changing little after that. In the current study, graduating seniors were studied to evaluate growth in writing throughout the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedCapps, Kline; Vocke, David E. – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Suggests that defining critical thinking as assessing authenticity, accuracy, and worth of knowledge claims and arguments also describes the historian's role. Recommends teaching students history in such a way as to necessitate higher level thinking skills. Argues that the writing process helps because it requires evaluation of existing data and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
