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Lundy, Jo – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes a writing assignment (useful for junior high through college age students) that seeks to improve students' descriptive writing through a set of class writing assignments using visual and concrete objects. Allows students to gain awareness, gain knowledge and discuss it, and ask questions as a body of learners rather than in isolation.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Crabb, Alfred L., Jr. – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Describes a class writing exercise for high school and college English classes (which functions well early in the first semester), which emphasizes a basic idea (that close inspection of a subject will reveal that there is a lot to say about it) by having students describe in detail a person's face, first as a class and then individually. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, High Schools
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Vinz, Ruth – English Journal, 1983
Suggests the importance of George Orwell's "1984" for today's students and recommends specific analytic and descriptive writing activities to develop critical reading skills. (MM)
Descriptors: Characterization, Critical Reading, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Boegeman, Margaret Byrd – 1978
In order to minimize the dread which students and teachers alike often feel toward freshman composition courses, it is important to involve students in reading and writing assignments which are of interest and importance to them. Autobiography, as a subject for study and a focus for writing, can be a great motivator and an expediter of the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Course Content
Walker, Susan – Bread Loaf and the Schools, 1987
Describes BreadNet, a computer network linking Middlebury College English teachers, their associates, and students. Network extends to rural English teachers and their K-8 students. BreadNet used for student pen pal program, teacher teleconferencing, information access. Also describes BreadNet's problems and future possibilities. (TES)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing