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Shirley, Sue – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2004
For beginning college students, effective paraphrasing is the most difficult of the research-writing skills they must learn and demonstrate. Many students understand summarizing, and the frequent appearance of unwieldy block quotations in their essays suggests their preference for using a source's exact words. But the art of paraphrasing escapes…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Freshman Composition, Writing Exercises

Gorrell, Donna – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982
Describes a method for teaching writing in which a series of passages are rewritten by the student, altered by progressively difficult transformations and manipulations, as an alternative to grammar instruction. (HTH)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Models, Teaching Methods

Guiher-Huff, Susan – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1990
Describes a freshman composition class in which students write essays about pollution. Explains that students classified and divided problems, cited examples, explored pollution's processes, used narrative, and offered comparisons. Describes how students prepared cause-and-effect oral presentations and then wrote persuasive letters. Concludes that…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Persuasive Discourse, Pollution, Research Papers (Students)

Burkle-Young, Francis A. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Describes a writing exercise with the "Oxford English Dictionary" that teaches students about research and attention to detail. Describes how the exercise, which involves the student in a set of serial tasks, makes students comfortable with the OED, teaches them how to extract full details of any word, and teaches students to take…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Higher Education, Research Skills

Searles, George J.; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Presents five short teaching tips written by five different authors on the following topics: newspapers, writing exercises for aspiring elementary school teachers, telephone directory as research tool, structured essay assignments, and teaching description with Raymond Carver's "Cathedral." (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Essays, Higher Education

Lawrence, Sandra M.; Sommers, Elizabeth – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Argues that careful assignment scaffolding combined with substantial training and ample opportunities for peer collaboration can make response groups a highly successful classroom practice. Describes what happened when some inexperienced students participated in peer response groups. Describes revisions that students made in their writing. (TB)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Peer Groups

Healy, Dave; Jensen, Murray – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Addresses both pedagogical and logistical concerns and objections to writing-across-the-curriculum programs in introductory content-area courses. Explains how instructors may use writing to help students master course content and how instructors can create a classroom structure to ease the pressure on themselves to respond to student drafts. (TB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Introductory Courses