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Laura Aull; Madison Moseley – English Journal, 2019
The authors designed an assignment for a writing class for late-secondary and early-college students, one with a central goal of giving students the opportunity to engage with a controversial topic by identifying and representing views other than their own. The authors called it a "not my opinion" assignment, and they piloted it in a…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Bush, Jonathan; Zuidema, Leah – English Journal, 2013
In this article, the authors report the importance of teaching students about collaborative writing. When teachers are effective in helping students to learn processes for collaborative writing, everyone involved needs to speak, listen, write, and read about how to write well and what makes writing good. Students are forced to "go meta"…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning
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Nelson, Trudi J. – English Journal, 2011
As teachers consider ethics, they find that it may often look like a student issue. It may be discussions of plagiarism, social justice, honesty, bullying, privacy, child labor, free speech, inequity. However, even as teachers struggle with ways to model ethics or "teach" ethics, they find that their teaching practices may warrant reflection. One…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Ethics, Teaching Methods
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Rish, Ryan M.; Caton, Joshua – English Journal, 2011
This article describes an assignment that encourages students to create collaboratively designed fantasy worlds. Inspired by the fanfiction genre, a teacher helps students create a world of interlinking stories and develop more detailed, sophisticated writing through in-depth collaboration. The authors present and discuss three salient forms of…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Collaborative Writing, Social Networks, Writing Assignments
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Quinn, Timothy; Eckerson, Todd – English Journal, 2010
One of the most important challenges a teacher faces is motivating his or her students to complete reading assignments and to complete them carefully. After all, if students bring to class a basic understanding of the text up for discussion, much deeper learning can occur than if the teacher is forced to spend time explaining the reading to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Assignments, Discussion, Reading Tests
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Hillebrand, Romana P. – English Journal, 1994
Describes a collaborative writing assignment devised for a first-year composition class. Outlines how the assignment was undertaken and carried out by the students. Provides background on the theoretical literature concerning collaborative writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, English Curriculum, English Instruction
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Mitchell, Diana – English Journal, 1994
Describes how one English teacher stumbled on the idea of having student peer groups write scripts. Outlines a variety of ways that script writing assignments can be made. Advocates having such scripts created by student collaborative groups. (HB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, English Curriculum
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Gillis, Candida – English Journal, 1994
Describes how one English teacher developed an approach to teaching writing that pairs student writers with writers in the community outside the school. Outlines the features of this writing partners project, including the responsibilities of each partner. Argues that such programs foster writer skill and self-esteem. (HB)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English Curriculum, Group Activities, High Schools