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Rowland, Amber; Smith, Sean J.; Lowrey, K. Alisa – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2022
Individuals with disabilities continue to struggle with writing. Most students with disabilities do not measure at even the most basic level in writing assessments. Technology offers tools to support writing instruction, but many teachers acknowledge a lack of confidence in designing instruction using these tools in writing. Using the 6 Traits of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Writing Difficulties, Basic Writing, Writing Instruction
Sacher, Cassandra L. O. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2016
Since high school students are failing to master writing proficiency, developmental writing programs at the college level have become increasingly necessary. This article explains the lack of readiness with which students are entering college and the workplace, examines the reasons students are having trouble writing, and describes elements of…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Developmental Programs, Basic Writing
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
Leary, Chris – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2007
This article describes two very different projects undertaken in the same basic writing course: collaborative ethnography and ACT test prep. At first glance, it appears that the work on collaborative ethnography accomplished our goal of creating better, more self-conscious writers while the work on test prep achieved our goal of creating better…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Standardized Tests, Ethnography, Context Effect

Skinner-Linnenberg, Virginia – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Describes a unit of study for a basic writing class that incorporates the writing of a dramatic monologue as a first step in learning to write a narrative essay. Discusses how one student's monologue changed as the unit progressed. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Narration, Postsecondary Education, Units of Study

Wasserman, Miryam – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Describes how the author uses the poems of Edgar Lee Masters'"Spoon River Anthology" in her developmental writing classes to foster literary discussion, build vocabulary, and teach a broad range of essay writing skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
McDermott, Michael – 1993
A writing center tutor's experience with a basic composition student named Tonja, while limited to seven tutoring sessions and, in the tutor's words, not amenable to claims of universality, reveals indications of the growth of the student as a writer, and the growth of the tutor as well. Discussions between the writer and the tutor were a learning…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition), Tutoring

Collins, Kathleen M.; Collins, James L. – English Journal, 1996
Reviews an instructional strategy for remedial writers which consists of four steps: identifying a strategy worth teaching; introducing the strategy by modeling it; helping students to try it out with workshop-style teaching guidance; and then, helping students to work toward independent mastery. (TB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, Remedial Programs, Secondary Education

Johnson, Sarah Coprich – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Examines the use of music as a springboard for writing. Provides an explanation of how basic writing students can use music-writing activities to discover meaningful topics and ideas, to develop specific supporting details, and to understand the connections between purpose and audience. (RS)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Class Activities, Higher Education

Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Considers how allowing developmental students to incorporate some of their language and culture into their writing helps them become more proficient writers. Suggests that the best way to teach basic writers is through both process and a respect for the social discovery that ensues as one composes. (SC)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Cultural Awareness, Social Differences

Segall, Mary T. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1995
Explains how faculty at Quinnipiac College reconceptualized developmental English and designed a new program that provides additional instructional time within the regular freshman English course. Finds that developmental students are better motivated and achieve growth in reading and writing commensurate with students who had a prior semester of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Program Development

Shafer, Gregory – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Shows how letter writing can motivate basic writers. Describes how the author began teaching his first remedial writing class with a class-wide engagement in letter writing. Discusses how the class developed an active, collaborative, engaged, and inclusive spirit as students learned to put expression first and polishing later. (SR)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Letters (Correspondence), Remedial Programs, Student Motivation

Linnehan, Paul J. – English in Texas, 1994
Describes the relationship between reading and writing, particularly in the way that extensive reading can help writers improve their writing. Discusses four strategies a writing teacher used to revise a basic writing course. Shows how the strategies derive from current research. Describes briefly how the strategies are employed in designing and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Course Descriptions, English Curriculum, English Instruction

Abt-Perkins, Dawn – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1992
Discusses the ways in which a high school basic writing teacher abandoned the advice about her students offered by her colleagues and chose instead to develop a student-centered writing workshop. Demonstrates the potential a workshop model has for creating a community of authors in a high school basic writing class. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, High Schools, Remedial Programs

Shafer, Gregory – English Journal, 2000
Relates how the author came into a generally contentious classroom of eleventh-grade developmental English students and how it became a place of cooperative reading and writing and critiquing through a democratic approach and a three-week project in which students wrote a fictional story via letter writing. Notes student's involvement and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Grade 11, High Schools
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