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Inkster, Bob – 1993
This overview of an English course, "Writing for Government, Business, and Industry" (listed as English 339 at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota), emphasizes the essential elements of audience and voice. Composition theorists' assertion that the absence of voice is symptomatic of a profound developmental deficit (suggesting an…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Young, Michael W. – 1994
In a pilot study based on a project underwritten by the United States Department of Education to add more study of international issues to writing courses, revisions in content to both a first your and an advanced composition course were tested during 1993-94. The method for the classroom procedures was also changed to enhance the greater…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Pilot Projects
Prentice, Penelope – 1990
An argument can be made for an expansion in the creative writing curriculum to cover all genres. The essential principles of writing in all genres, poetry, fiction, drama, TV, and film can be taught, with the positive effect of saving a serious writing student years of stumbling in the dark. A responsible creative writing course of the present and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Curriculum Development, Drama, Fiction
Comprone, Joseph J. – 1992
A series of administrative and pedagogical questions about class size and the training of graduate teaching assistants caused the director of the freshman English program and the head of the Humanities department at Michigan Technological University to assemble an experimental class in freshman English. The course consisted of 113 students and 9…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Essays
Latta, Susan – 1998
It is necessary to continue efforts to adapt the composition curriculum to the diverse needs of the student population. The writing process, even if seen as recursive, varies from student to student and from situation to situation. Students must also be shown that the very conventions and forms of academic writing are culturally situated. The…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Discourse Communities
Throne, David W. – 1994
As part of a federal grant to develop an across-the-curriculum ethics program, ethics instruction was integrated into English classes at Colorado's Community College of Aurora (CCA). In the English classes, students were first asked to read case studies from CCA's ethics handbook detailing specific ethical problems. In subsequent classes, students…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking
Tripe, Robert L. K. – 1990
In an attempt to combat the problem of poor writing and problem-solving skills among technical program graduates, Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ontario, Canada began implementing changes in its Computer Studies curriculum. The first change was a greater focus on improving students' writing skills. Writing assignments were…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development