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Hoar, Nancy – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Discusses how computer programing and expository writing are both based on the ability to (1) recognize that a complex whole is composed of manageable parts, and (2) identify the necessary steps for achieving a goal or supporting a generality, and (3) concentrate on and summarize a large amount of information into an abbreviated, succinct…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Expository Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Murphy, Richard – 1981
Noting that effective writing requires organization, honesty, and personal experiences, this booklet offers suggestions for teaching students to write expository essays that are serious and truthful. The first section of the booklet suggests ways to teach students to organize their ideas, while the second section discusses both the value of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Teaching Methods

Kirkman, Ralph E.; Darrell, Bob – Peabody Journal of Education, 1980
Included among the 10 commandments for good writing are: (1) Write with verbs and nouns; (2) Write for yourself and other people; (3) Do not write in jargon; (4) Read aloud your writing; (5) Do not write cluttered sentences; and (6) Use concrete words and phrases. (JN)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Dauwalder, David P. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
Presents a method for teaching report writing that first establishes the order followed when writing a good business report and then presents, in reverse order, the steps of gathering information, interpreting information, and organizing information. (SRT)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Business English, Expository Writing

King, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
West, William W. – 1983
Teachers who restrict their teaching of writing to elements of exposition are likely to fail because there is insufficient content, interest, or challenge in learning simple exposition, and the techniques that contribute to polished exposition are more easily accessible when approached through aesthetic writing. A teaching sequence for using…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Language Usage

Sinatra, Richard – English Quarterly, 1983
Explains four visual composition preparations providing both concrete experiences to stimulate student writing and a nonverbal means of teaching the internal structure of discourse. (MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education

Englert, Carol Sue; Raphael, Taffy E. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The expository writing difficulties of exceptional students are examined in relationship to the writing process, expository text structures, and students' metacognitive knowledge. Approaches to the teaching of expository writing are discussed, and a dialogic approach, involving teacher modeling and a series of think sheets, is described.…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Disabilities
Kurth, Ruth J. – Educational Technology, 1987
Describes a study designed to determine whether the use of computer word processing would improve both the amount and quality of revision done by high school student writers. The effects of word processing on composition length and revision, and students' attitudes toward writing and word processing are discussed. (47 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Expository Writing, High Schools
Freeman, Marcia S. – 1999
Suggesting that students in grades 4-12 can develop their ear for expository writing and improve their skills by having well-written expository pieces read to them regularly, this book contains a broad variety of sample expository read-aloud pieces with accompanying notes that highlight the techniques each writer has used particularly well. After…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Lesson Plans
Fenton, Mary C. – 1983
The synthesis of four instructional models for argumentative writing--the Toulmin, Hiduke, Winder, and Crebbe-Debate approaches--with basic discourse theory produces a practical and positive method of teaching college students to write effective persuasive essays. A battery of questions based on a modified communication triangle--subject…
Descriptors: College English, Essays, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
In response to teachers' requests for specific information about implementing the curriculum in the Expository Writing Program (EWP), this manual presents the instructional methods and materials used during the Teaching Expository Reading and Writing Project. First, the lines of research that formed the basis for the instructional program are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Grattan, Mary C. – 1983
Four successful content area writing aids have been developed in the writing center at a southeastern community college. The first is a content area writing lab, tailored to a sociology course, in which students receive concentrated instruction on notetaking, studying for and taking essay exams, and writing a questionnaire and an analysis paper.…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Expository Writing, Higher Education

Duin, Ann Hill – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Noting that students in groups learn more effectively when working cooperatively than when working competitively or individualistically, presents guidelines, assignments, and class activities designed to foster cooperative learning. Describes such student-student interaction sessions as describing sense perception details, receiving peer feedback,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Heuristics

Schnieder, Annette – English Quarterly, 1983
Uses personal experience to show how writing instructors can help students articulate their audience and purpose, use written products purposefully, identify the intellectual demands of their task, and then consciously formulate their ideas in light of these demands. (MM)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Discovery Learning, Expository Writing, Higher Education