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Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa; Jovi R. S. Nazareno; Christopher Rappleye – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing is the highest form of thinking, as evidenced by neuroimaging that shows how more neural networks are activated simultaneously during writing than during any other cognitive activity. This book will help teachers understand how the brain learns to write by unveiling 15 stages of thinking that underpin the writing process, along with…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response)
Bushnell, Adam, Ed.; Gill, Angela, Ed.; Waugh, David, Ed.; Smith, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
How do teachers identify the potential for greater depth writing and encourage children to meet their full potential? This book was created by people who are not only passionate about primary education, but who are also leading experts in their own particular areas. They have made use of their wide experience to offer practical guidance on greater…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers
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Krapels, Roberta H.; Davis, Barbara D. – Business Communication Quarterly, 1999
Considers how business writing class instructors generally assign reports that require source notations in a specific format. Discusses developing questions to be asked with middle or senior level managers at several different businesses. Presents a discussion of the interview results. Provides strong support for requiring students to reference…
Descriptors: Business Education, Citations (References), Higher Education, Interviews
Christensen, Linda – Rethinking Schools, Ltd, 2009
"Teaching for Joy and Justice" is the much-anticipated sequel to Linda Christensen's bestselling, "Reading, Writing, and Rising Up." Christensen is recognized as one of the country's finest teachers. Her latest book shows why. Through story upon story, Christensen demonstrates how she draws on students' lives and the world to teach poetry, essay,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Arts, Autobiographies, Literacy Education
Costanzo, William V. – 2000
Many teachers would like to counter what Deborah Tannen calls "The Argument Culture." They recognize that teaching students traditional principles of argument may perpetuate the kind of adversarial thinking that erupts all too often: in aggressive newspaper headlines, on confrontational television shows, in court rooms, and in school…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Assignments
Hurlbert, Claude Mark; Blitz, Michael – Composition Studies, 2003
Considers how over 10 years of teaching first-year composition, more than two-thirds of the authors' students have elected to write about things that have caused them sorrow, about the deaths of loved ones, about the deaths of neighbors, even of hope itself. Composes a set of "meditations" - brief essays in which the authors try to understand…
Descriptors: Death, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Writing Models
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Rankin, Elizabeth – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1990
Outlines a set of terms which can be used (in sequencing writing assignments from simple to complex) to make distinctions between kinds of sequences and notions of complexity. Shows how these terms allow teachers to understand the logic of various sequences, compare and contrast related sequences, and evaluate the concept of assignment sequence.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Sequential Approach, Writing Assignments
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Trimmer, Joseph F. – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1999
Presents a transcript of a panel discussion at Colgate University in which people in various professions spoke about their writing experiences in school and on the job. Notes that these stories told by professionals about their writing experiences can be seen as part of an institutional history and part of a disciplinary history. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Writing Assignments
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Ewoldt, Carolyn; Miller, Etta – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Techniques are discussed for encouraging students to write thoughtful papers about field trips. Greater student involvement can be achieved by cultivating a sense of ownership of the writing. Topics for before, during, and after the trip are suggested in such functional writing areas as instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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Whiteman, Sherri A.; Gordon, Jay L. – English Journal, 2001
Discusses the issue of students buying papers on the Internet. Considers how educators reconcile their ability to teach effectively with their students' ability to cheat and steal without the teacher's knowledge. Suggests a solution by assigning essays that cannot be bought. (SG)
Descriptors: Cheating, Grade 11, Higher Education, Honesty
Gilliver, John – Use of English, 1990
Argues that, as the world becomes increasingly less human and more technocratic, staying in contact with whatever is humane requires conscious effort. Suggests the use of poetry writing assignments as a means of preserving children's inventiveness and imagination. Provides examples of poems written by schoolchildren. (SG)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Elementary Education, Humanistic Education, Humanization
Pitel, Vonna J. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses the advantages of making the writing center part of the instructional media center in schools and provides some questions to consider in setting up a writing center. Offers three examples of popular writing assignments. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Language Arts, Program Descriptions
Prentice, Penelope – 1990
An argument can be made for an expansion in the creative writing curriculum to cover all genres. The essential principles of writing in all genres, poetry, fiction, drama, TV, and film can be taught, with the positive effect of saving a serious writing student years of stumbling in the dark. A responsible creative writing course of the present and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Curriculum Development, Drama, Fiction
Khawaja, Mabel – 1997
In her literature and composition classes, an educator encourages students to correlate their memory and imagination to the rhetorical elements of logos, pathos, and ethos and construct regenerative structures of knowledge through a comprehensive and objective understanding of a contextualized problem. She employs Bakhtin's dialogic method of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Literary Criticism
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Theory into Practice, 1994
This document consists of the two issues of this newsletter published during 1994. Issues contain articles and employment notices of interest to Montessori teachers and school administrators. Feature articles include: (1) "Meaningful In-Service Comes from Within Our Own School" (Anne Blickenstaff and Nancy Hildick), which discusses one…
Descriptors: Botany, Child Development, Elementary Education, Employment Opportunities
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