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A Case Approach for Teaching Academic Writing.
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McCleary, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes an approach to composition instruction in which the students are given a body of real or fictional evidence about a particular case and asked to interpret or explain it by means of a closely-reasoned argument. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods
Writing Philosophy: Sequential Essays and Objective Tests.
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Cunningham, Frank J. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a philosophy course with an expanded writing component. Includes samples of writing assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Introducing Rhetoric in Remedial Writing Courses: Staffroom Interchange.
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Baldwin, Dean R. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Suggests the value of a prewriting sheet which asks remedial students to specify an occasion, audience, and purpose for each of their one-paragraph papers. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Higher Education, Perspective Taking, Prewriting
Sequencing Expository Writing: A Recursive Approach.
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Kiniry, Malcolm; Strenski, Ellen – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a system for arranging assignments in a composition course that aims to prepare students for academic writing, by focusing entirely on exposition and its conceptual demands. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
A Chemist's View of Writing, Reading, and Thinking across the Curriculum.
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Powell, Alfred – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Invites colleagues in the "hard" sciences to embrace writing, reading, and thinking across the curriculum, and describes the use of "project" and "concept" composition assignments to that end in an organic chemistry course. (HTH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
Modeling a Writer's Identity: Reading and Imitation in the Writing Classroom.
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Brooke, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Suggests an alternative understanding of imitation, according to which a student learns by imitating another person, rather than a text or process. Proposes that composition teaching works when it effectively models an identity which students can accept. (MS)
Descriptors: College English, Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Freshman Composition