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Guce, Ivee K. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2017
Despite the efforts to confirm the effectiveness of writing in learning mathematics, analysis on common errors in mathematical writings has not received sufficient attention. This study aimed to provide an account of the students' procedural explanations in terms of their commonly committed errors in mathematical writing. Nine errors in…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, College Mathematics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Scheer, Steven C. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Recommends the use of a fictitious term paper with stringent format requirements, but without content, to enable students to concentrate on format. Emphasizes that the assignment gives students an opportunity to experience school as play. (MS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Expository Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Bell, Elizabeth S.; Bell, Ronald N. – School Science and Mathematics, 1985
termined that students who completed writing assignments on mathematics problems were better problem solvers than students in control groups, supporting the contention that expository writing is an effective, practical, and innovative tool for problem solving. (Sample problems and writing assignments are included.) (DH)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, High Schools, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Hightshue, Deborah; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
Secondary teachers returning from Cummins Engine Foundation Writing Project seminars (Indiana) shared their ideas about integrating writing skills with various academic subjects. This article provides helpful hints to teachers of business, electronics, English, foreign languages, home economics, mathematics, science, social studies, and vocational…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Expository Writing, Secondary Education, Seminars
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Sensenbaugh, Roger – Reading Psychology, 1992
Annotates 17 conference papers, theses, and journal articles (published between 1989 and 1992) from the ERIC database that discuss the advantages and disadvantages of journal writing at all levels of education. (RS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Journal Writing
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Dauwalder, David P. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
Presents a method for teaching report writing that first establishes the order followed when writing a good business report and then presents, in reverse order, the steps of gathering information, interpreting information, and organizing information. (SRT)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Business English, Expository Writing
Fried, Steve – Teachers & Writers, 1997
Offers two expository writing exercises that, machinelike, move from word to idea to arrive at rich and evocative connections. Shows how the first exercise, the four-column association, produces a free-form paragraph or poem following a freewriting warmup. Uses the term "placket" to describe the second exercise, a poem that has a set of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Imagery
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Stoddard, Ted D. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1985
Discusses a favorite assignment, which is to require students to write a "real-world" business letter and then mail it with the anticipation of a response. (EL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Education Work Relationship, Expository Writing
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Koeller, Shirley – Science and Children, 1982
Presents strategies that teach children how to write in order to demonstrate, to facilitate, and to record science learning. Also suggests using frame of reference- how a writer views and interprets an issue by comparing different source accounts of science questions. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Expository Writing, Science Education
Toothaker, Roy E. – Instructor, 1980
Presents 26 composition activities that offer elementary students an opportunity to practice expository writing through the preparation of short written or oral reports on scientific topics. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Expository Writing, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Boulanger, David R. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Describes an assignment that urges expository writers to pursue their own interests and create a fully developed prose project that they will be eager to share. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Experiential Learning, Expository Writing, High Schools
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Kucer, Stephen B. – Journal of Reading, 1986
Describes the kinds of difficulties experienced by less able writers and how content area teachers can help these writers produce better expository text. Provides writing activities that shift the writer's attention from language forms to language content. (SRT)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Literacy Education, Reading Writing Relationship
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Youngblood, Ed – English Journal, 1985
Recommends having students keep a reading journal on reading assignments as a way of getting them involved in reading, thinking, and discussion. (EL)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Reading Assignments, Reading Skills, Secondary Education
Dickinson, Patricia – Teacher, 1980
The author explains how she taught third- and fourth-graders the skills needed to produce a class newspaper: note-taking, layout, news writing, and proofreading. She found that learning research skills and disciplined newswriting improved students' writing in general. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Activities, News Reporting
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Morgan, Marilyn R. P. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1997
Discusses how to teach a first-year composition course, expository writing, required of most students at Rensselaer Polytechnic. Considers how to motivate students and help them to see connections between writing and their technical work. Offers various techniques for getting the students to write comfortably. (PA)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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