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Peer reviewedRice, H. William – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Discusses ways to integrate computers effectively into the freshman English course. Addresses some objections to using computers in the composition classroom. (MM)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Word Processing
Peer reviewedMoss, Andrew – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews nine readers for basic writing courses in three categories: reader-rhetoric, readers designed for basic writing classes, and readers adaptable to both freshman composition and basic writing. States that texts should offer prose models and topics for composition as well as offering a selection appropriate to students who have difficulty…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Instructional Materials, Reading Materials, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedClark, Irene Lurkis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Discusses the use of audiotapes for basic writing students and explains different ways to use blank tapes. Describes available programs and lists the companies selling them. (EL)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Basic Skills, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCostanzo, William – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews some of the available resources--films, videotapes, and textbooks--that support visual approaches to writing. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Films, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDick, John A. R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews over 50 textbooks grouped into three categories: (1) workbooks; (2) sentence style books, most of which use sentence combining as the fundamental type of exercise; and (3) copy books, which are used by directly copying passages with signals for particular changes. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Evaluation, Grammar, Higher Education
