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Peer reviewedLarsen, Dave M., Jr. – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes a three-part exercise used in a first semester freshman composition class, intended to show students the world of details in even the most ordinary, everyday objects by having students write about a plastic coffee mug. (SR)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedRendleman, Danny – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes how the author, in his second semester freshman composition class devoted to teaching research skills, teaches students the subtleties of what to paraphrase and what to quote directly. (SR)
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Research Skills, Student Research
Peer reviewedKearney, Julie – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Describes how the teacher of a Composition II class (a second-semester composition class with the emphasis in research writing and bibliography) had the students, through their research, generate the readings for themselves. Describes how class discussion, writing fluency and clarity, rhetorical strategies, and development of essays all displayed…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
