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Download full textRose, Mike – 1979
An examination of the written products and writing situations of a university reveals that virtually all of these writing tasks call for exposition, which further breaks down into the five components of seriation, classification, synthesis, compare/contrast, and analysis. These five components of expositional discourse form a set of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Guides, Descriptive Writing, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedButtery, Thomas J.; Reitzammer, Ann F. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Analyzes the creative writing of 94 second-grade children in a suburban elementary school, comparing boys' and girls' creative writings when the composition was elicited from realistic fiction, fantasy, and fantasy in conjunction with stuffed animals and wind-up toys. Also examines the combined creativity of boys' and girls' compositions and the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Females, Grade 2
Crow, Edith – 1983
By following the "steppingstone" or marker theory of dividing one's life into no more than 12 and no less than 8 significant periods, a student in a writing course can develop a brief response for each phase to articulate multiple experiences. Writing teachers can aid students in realizing that important life experiences are the stuff of…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Diaries
