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Download full textDeNight, Shawn – 1992
Content area teachers interested in using writing to learn activities need to be well informed about the learning promoted by certain writing tasks before assigning them. Writing assignments should not be thoughtlessly and arbitrarily assigned with the expectation that learning, somewhat miraculously or mysteriously, will occur. Although writing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Writing Relationship
