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Wooldridge, Deborah G.; Weber, Mary Jeanne – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1990
Critical thinking is being promoted as a vital element in secondary education. Home economics teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills through structured writing assignments beginning with free writing and proceeding to more formal papers. (SK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Free Writing, Home Economics, Secondary Education
Polin, Linda – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Argues that writing instruction should lead student writers to find their voice in their writing and that this will only happen if they write often for personal purposes and personal expression. (SR)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement

Spires, Hiller A. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes a free writing exercise designed to help first-year college students confront perceptions they have of themselves as learners. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Free Writing, Freshman Composition, Self Concept
Collom, Jack – Teachers & Writers, 1999
Describes two word games useful in secondary writing classrooms: "illot-mollo," in which freewriters announce words they just wrote which the other members must use in their subsequent freewriting; and "secret" in which students each write a secret (usually made-up) and then put them into a hat--students then pull out a secret and write about it.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Free Writing, Secondary Education

Bodmer, Paul – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Describes a journal writing activity designed to engage students in the exchange between text and reader. Argues that informal writing in a journal is a means of letting students find out that, if they engage themselves with a text, they will find it interesting. (RS)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Journal Writing, Prewriting, Reader Response

Gilstrap, Robert L. – Social Studies Review, 1991
Examines whether writing activities promote learning and thinking in elementary and secondary social studies students. Describes writing activities that teachers have used to draw on existing student knowledge, consolidate and review new information, and reformulate and extend knowledge. Concludes that writing activities benefit student learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Free Writing, Learning Activities, Letters (Correspondence)

Williamson, Michael M.; McAndrew, Donald A. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1987
Discusses the value of writing assignments in mathematics instruction. Advocates informal, lengthy, nongraded writing as the best form of learning. Encourages the use of a learning log by students which is reviewed by both teachers and fellow students. Provides examples of short in-class mathematics writing assignments. (PAA)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Free Writing, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction