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Howley, Craig B. – 1987
This handbook, written for a workshop, is designed to help improve school newsletters. The first section of the handbook is an outline of the lecture given in the workshop. Subsequent sections discuss and illustrate: (1) basic principles of simple, functional writing; (2) the importance of time and practice; (3) five good writing habits; (4)…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Newsletters
Winer, Lise – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
This paper examines typical problems that students of English as a Second Language (ESL) have in expository writing, namely those involving classification criteria and hierarchical categories. It also provides a set of guidelines for the practice of classification skills as well as specific classification exercises. (18 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classification, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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
Mayher, John S.; And Others – 1983
Attempting to place in an American context many of the ideas about the teaching of writing that were first developed in England, this book contains contributions from internationally prominent teachers/scholars who attended the New York University-CBS Sunrise Semester course on learning to write and writing to learn. The text also reflects the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education

Reynolds, Mark – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Describes how consistent focused and sequenced freewriting with sequenced procedures for moving from it to additional writing leads students to more effective writing. (CHR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Expository Writing, Heuristics, Higher Education