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Download full textBass, Bruce; And Others – 1996
This volume is a sampling of 18 pieces of writing by students in a workplace education writing course called Advanced Writing. It contains the following poems, fiction, and nonfiction written in and outside of class: "Artist" (Bruce Bass); "Tuesday Morning" (Kathy Colon); "House" (Lee Christian); "Life" (Alice Chapin); "A Cat Story" (Jane E.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Creative Writing, Literacy Education
Workers Education Program, Inc., Boston, MA. – 1996
This collection of writings is the culmination of students' study in the Worker Education Program's (WEP) workplace literacy classes. The WEP is a joint labor/management project of the Service Employees International Union Local 285 and unionized health care employers in Massachusetts that offers a range of education, job training, and career…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Continuing Education, Creative Writing
Writers at Work, 1997
This document consists of four consecutive issues of a literary magazine written by adult workplace literacy students of the Casco Bay (Maine) Partnership for Workplace Education. The Partnership was a federally funded workplace literacy program that provided customized basic skills education at seven business sites in the Portland area, serving…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs
McBride, Pamela G., Ed.; Johnson, Margaret L., Ed. – 1992
These four collections of essays are the work of adult participants in the Workforce Instructional Network (WIN), a National Workplace Literacy Project. The authors are workers who participated in classes for reading/writing improvement and business writing and clerical skills. The finished pieces resulted from the following: group discussion of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Exploration, Computers
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1998
This document contains 48 pieces of writing that were authored by employees of six different businesses who participated in an adult diploma program. A variety of genres are represented, including poems, personal narratives, book reviews, essays, letters, and fiction. The works are grouped under the following broad headings: goals, freedom,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Creative Writing
Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago. Chicago Teachers' Center. – 1996
This document is an anthology of participant writings from the Worker Education Program, which is a holistic workplace literacy program developed through a partnership among Northeastern Illinois University (NIU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Workers Union (ACTWU). The document begins with a brief overview of the Worker Education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Anthologies, Asian Americans
