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Bottoms, Gene; Rock, Daniel; Tadlock, Joseph – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
Literacy is the foundation for success in school and society. An essential goal of every school is to help every student read, write and think critically. Dedicated teachers are the catalyst for reaching this goal. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) developed a literacy professional learning model to better support these dedicated…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Achievement Gap
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Shepley, Nathan – Composition Forum, 2014
This article reviews insights from place-based education and ecological models of writing to show how these theories can work together to shape locally focused composition pedagogies. From place-based education, the researcher takes an emphasis on physical specificity, and from ecological models of writing, the researcher takes an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Writing Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Writing Assignments
Ediger, Marlow – 1992
Writing needs to be given adequate emphasis in the area of social studies. Teachers should attempt to be creative and to assign different kinds of writing in their classes. This paper discusses possible activities for students in a unit on the Middle East to illustrate diverse purposes in writing. An initial assignment could be to ask students to…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, History
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Mulderig, Gerald P. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Asks what can an advanced composition course offer its students that is both new and valuable to all of them despite the diversity of students' fields and career goals? Argues that job-related writing requires special attention to audience. Suggests ways to organize course content to develop audience awareness. (JG)
Descriptors: Assignments, Business English, Content Area Writing, Course Content
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Davis, Mary – English Journal, 1985
Describes how students are able to empathize with women writers and each other by reading and writing autobiography. (CRH)
Descriptors: Assignments, Autobiographies, Biographies, Content Area Writing
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Pagnucci, Gian; Abt-Perkins, Dawn – English Journal, 1992
Disputes the claim that narrative writing is of lesser value than expository forms, and argues that narrative holds great potential for use in writing curricula. Describes a summer science institute for minority students in which narrative was utilized. (HB)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Discourse Modes, High Schools, Narration
Beins, Bernard C. – 2001
When students study the discipline of statistics, a domain that can be remote and abstract for them, it is critical that they understand what the numbers mean and how those numbers help people arrive at decisions. This paper presents different approaches that help students learn how researchers actually work with statistics and shows how students…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Psychology
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Morrison, Beverly H. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Suggests that developmental writing courses that emphasize transactional writing with assignments directly related to general education courses increase the motivation of students to take the developmental writing assignments seriously, realize that writing skills contribute to academic success, and transfer these writing skills to the written…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Content Area Writing, General Education, Higher Education
Ross, Jeffrey; Faucette, Dixon – 1994
During the 1994 fall semester, an instructor taught an English 101 section at Central Arizona College-Superstition Mountain Campus that used readings from Graham Flegg's "Numbers: Their History and Meaning" as the basis for 3 of the assigned readings. Only 3 of the 5 assigned essays were based on math--as opposed to all of them--for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Writing, Freshman Composition, Group Dynamics
Di Renzo, Anthony – 1996
While working as a special consultant for General Mills in 1948, John Dos Passos wrote a report explaining the latest scientific research and technological advancements and how the postwar economy was affecting General Mills and the cereal market. General Mills, using a real writer for a corporate freelance, profited from Dos Passos' expertise and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Bizzell, Pat; Herzberg, Bruce – Rhetoric Review, 1985
Reviews eight reading-across-the-curriculum textbooks, showing that four treat academic discourse only in its generic form, while four go beyond that level to look at the audience, purpose, and genre specific to particular disciplines. (RBW)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
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Rosaen, Cheryl L. – Elementary School Journal, 1990
Discusses writing assignments and instructional support needed when the primary purpose of writing is to help students reformulate their subject-matter knowledge. Research on grades one-three illustrates ways in which two writing assignments offer different opportunities to learn about American history. (BB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Shepard, Richard G. – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1993
Discusses the use of writing to enhance learning in mathematics from a conceptual development perspective. Shuell's phases of learning are described as a general model for conceptual development and subsequently matched with Britton's categories for transactional-informative writing. Sample mathematics assignments for each writing category are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation