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Direct linkBruce Ballenger; Kelly Myers – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Forty years ago, Nancy Sommers identified dissonance and the ways in which writers respond to incongruities between "intention and execution" as a core competency of revision. While still a challenge for student writers, dissonance now takes different forms, particularly for advanced student writers who embrace theories of revision but…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition), Psychological Patterns, Fear
Keith Rhodes – College Composition and Communication, 2019
A limited mixed-method study revealed that students could alter written style after direct style instruction, but the effect faded quickly. Instead, students reverted to culturally structured intuition to make conscious, contrary choices. Thus, direct instruction in precise forms of style should probably yield to methods that build culturally…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Culturally Relevant Education
Peer reviewedThompson, George J. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Outlines a nine-step process for revision of students' writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Peer reviewedAdams, Dale T. – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Teachers' proscriptions and pet peeves contribute to artificiality in students' writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedBeaugrande, Robert de – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Uses 24 examples to demonstrate that a comprehensive generative stylistics can provide an interlocking method for describing and teaching writing strategies. (DD)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Grammar, Rhetoric, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedRygiel, Dennis – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Describes a technique for studying individual words in context in terms of 11 language categories (e.g., etymology, function/associations, and semantic relations). (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Word Study Skills, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedWhitburn, Merrill D. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Metaphors, Rhetoric, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedBerke, Jacqueline – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Author describes various workshops and conferences held during the recent College Composition and communication Conference in Cincinnati and protests the non-professional attitudes toward the craft of writing" exhibited at the conference. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Expository Writing, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedPry, Elmer R. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes how a "style analysis" sheet may be used in helping students to develop a more concrete and vigorous prose style. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Styles, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedGuinn, Dorothy Margaret – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Provides guidelines for teaching students to write descriptive and informative abstracts and describes the benefits of such instruction. (DD)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedWashington, Eugene – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Describes questions students might ask themselves in writing their compositions. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Download full textDemarest, David P., Jr. – College Composition and Communication, 1968
A teacher of English composition analyzes a few examples of written compositions given him by a class of adult job trainees, the majority of whom are of ghetto high school background. By concentrating on the positive aspects of their efforts and deemphasizing rigid grammatical mechanics which tend to inhibit their expression, he discovers that his…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSiff, David – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Psychology, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedLunsford, Andrea A. – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: Higher Education, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedJordan, Richard D. – College Composition and Communication, 1972
Jonson's quotes are from his Timber, or Discoveries.'' (SP)
Descriptors: Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
