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Rishel, Thomas W. – 1993
Mathematics faculty around the United States are using writing assignments in a variety of ways. A mathematics teacher at Alma College, Michigan, has students write mathematical autobiographies, keep a reading logbook, and write letters to other students about the course, letters to instructors about the topics, or about what they do not…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Miller, Richard E. – 1991
The struggle in the composition community regarding the place of personal narrative in academic writing became particularly acute for a class of undergraduate Critical Writing students undertaking ethnographic work. By mid-semester, students had read and produced a series of texts about culture and found themselves reading and writing about…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnography, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
Scheurer, Erika – 1991
The collaborative student essay invites exploration of various points of view in multiple voices. The co-written essay brings out language's heteroglossic richness, as shown by the students' collaborative writing experiences in a college writing class. Students worked within the frames of two assignments: (1) an analysis of a text or trend; and…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Essays, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Welsch, Kathleen A. – 1992
Composition pedagogy that challenges students to reflect on their participation in discourse communities reveals an attempt by teachers to balance disciplinary concerns with the realities of students' worlds. Such a pedagogy consists of students repositioning themselves in relation to the various discourses which comprise their own ways of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Student Writing Models
Harrison, Suzan – 1991
Eckerd College in Florida has instituted portfolio assessment in writing classes, a method which invites students to engage in learning on a variety of levels. Portfolios encourage students to consider the responses of various readers in their revision processes, claim ownership of their writing, review the papers they have written in college,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation
Adams, Dale T. – 1980
This paper offers a model to be followed by students completing a writing assignment. The model, designed originally for writing students at two-year colleges, prescribes the number of paragraphs and the content of each paragraph. Suggested topic assignments are offered, and an example of the use of the model is provided. Four steps are proposed…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Bannister, Linda – 1998
A multicultural literature course at Loyola Marymount University (California) was designed to complicate ideas of culture with gender issues and explored a common but largely unexplored phenomenon--writers who write outside their own personal backgrounds and identities. The course drew from research on "women's way of knowing" and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cultural Context, Ethnicity, Fiction
Bodmer, Paul – 1990
Combining freshman composition and introduction to literature courses can make students active participants in what they read. In one course, students were instructed to read a literary work for a class. When the class met, the students were to write the name of the assigned story, the author, and anything they wanted to write about the story.…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Free Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Jacobus, Kristina; And Others – 1990
It does not take a computer expert to teach students how to use word processing software to prewrite, write, revise, and edit a professional-looking paper. Just a small amount of expertise allows students to work independently as long as they have access to a computer and the necessary software. The computer also facilitates interactive learning…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Microcomputers
Matz, Karl A. – 1990
The University of North Dakota possesses an archive containing the schoolwork, writings, and artworks of 32 children. In a study, all of the fiction and poetry of three of the children were gathered, as were teachers' descriptive records and examples of the children's drawings. It can be concluded from a study of the randomly selected children…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Writing Models
Evans, Karin – 1996
In a Purdue University English 101 class, students were told to identify an audience outside the classroom for each paper they wrote. The central challenge to composition teachers is preserving elements valued in teaching academic writing in the context of ill-defined problems to be addressed outside the classroom. Most useful for instructors…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Proctor, Russell F., II – 1993
An assignment that has proven successful in teaching "Communication Theories" (a senior-level capstone course at Northern Kentucky University) is "The Application Folder." The goal of the assignment is for students to apply concepts from the course in their everyday life. Students monitor and analyze what they watch, read, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Criticism
Lovas, John C. – 1992
A community college composition instructor with 32 years of teaching experience designed a semester-long writing assignment (developed at De Anza College (California) and also used at University of California, Berkeley) in which students compose a personal intellectual history. The assignment is based on several assumptions, including: (1) writing…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition
Brewbaker, James M. – 1991
Columbus (Georgia) College's Challenge Squared program consists of three 2-week enrichment day camps for gifted students in grades 5 through 10. In past years, students have worked with an artist to create local history murals and have written and produced video plays in cooperation with a media specialist. Most recently, students were involved in…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Childrens Literature, Enrichment, High Schools
Agee, Jane M. – 1993
Many freshmen come to English courses thinking that they generally dislike poetry and that in particular they dislike writing critical essays about poetry. Two strategies which are effective in helping students overcome their own negative perceptions are to allow students to: (1) engage in transactional reader response; and (2) explore poetry…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Creative Writing, Freshman Composition
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