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Clustering: Generating Ideas for Original Sentences.
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Gordon, Helen H. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Suggests clustering can help students of any ability level draw upon latent images and ideas, generate more original sentences, and experiment with metaphor and simile. (MS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cluster Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Athens/Arts: Involving Students in Research on Their Community.
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Bullock, Richard H. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a writing assignment for business writing courses in which the class investigates a problem that affects them not as students but as members of a larger community. The assignment is a feasibility study for developing Athens, Ohio, as an arts and entertainment center. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Higher Education, School Community Relationship
Staffroom Interchange.
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College Composition and Communication, 1981
Offers three techniques for helping students learn to revise entire pieces, discover how words work in context, and eliminate errors. (RL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College English
Developing the Inferential Reasoning of Basic Writers.
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Zeller, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Describes an assignment sequence using photographs to introduce developmental students to conventions of academic inquiry, and to give them practice analyzing and synthesizing. Reports that students link details observed in the photos to inferences drawn about them. Concentrates on the assignment linking a photo of E. B. White with an essay by him…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Higher Education