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Download full textRobitaille, Marilyn M. – 1987
Designed to combine the science and the art of teaching composition, this series of assignments encourages junior high and high school writing students to explore tone, original visual images, point of view, and other literary techniques. One assignment asks students to write a number of paragraphs alternately using sarcasm, humor, melancholy, and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Instructional Innovation, Prewriting
Bloom, Lynn Z. – 1983
Unlike less skilled writers, who are intensely writer-oriented, skilled writers of personal essays and autobiographies are reader-oriented and demonstrate a conscious concern for their external audience. Student writers can develop a sense of an external audience by analyzing parallel autobiographical text selections of skilled and unskilled…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing, Diaries
Mack, Tom – 1983
Group activities in the classroom can be a useful way to explore various standard rhetorical patterns. For descriptive writing, students can select and write about unsigned collages made by classmates. The writer can try to find a unifying theme that characterizes the artist's personality. A narrative component can be added to descriptive writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, Group Activities
Holliway, David R. – 2000
This study addressed whether "reading-as-the-reader" can improve fifth- and ninth-grade students' abilities to compose descriptive writing consistent with their readers' informational needs. There were 206 participants: 154 writers (78 fifth graders and 76 ninth graders) and 52 ninth-grade readers. The study adapted the referential…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Descriptive Writing, Grade 5, Grade 9
Lockledge, Ann – 1993
Using the newspaper to provide opportunities for students to learn current events and further develop writing skills is described. Seven activities outline how to use cooperative learning to teach current events. Four types of assignments based on newspapers develop various types of writing skills: (1) personal writing; (2) descriptive writing;…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comics (Publications), Contracts, Descriptive Writing
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1989
A case study traces the evolution of "once-upon-a-time" in a child's classroom story writing, drawing upon data collected in a three-year study of writing development in an urban magnet school. The subject, Mitzi, is observed from kindergarten through second grade. The study assumes that stories are cultural discourse forms that serve…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Development, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
