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Peer reviewedSmith, Mark Edward – English Journal, 1992
Describes the experience of helping a student revise a personal, expressive piece of writing into a transactional essay. Discusses the pros and cons of such guidance. Concludes with a strong defense of conferencing. (HB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Modes, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedBlake, Robert W. – English Journal, 1991
Describes a writing assignment designed to help students with the frequently strange and foreboding job of writing a poem. Discusses how one student and the teacher worked through the assignment. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Higher Education, Poetry
Peer reviewedCleary, Linda Miller – English Journal, 1996
Investigates a gender-related issue raised by a 1990 study of 40 11th-grade writing students. Discusses what problems are posed by and what possible solutions there are to the tendency in young women writers--more pronounced than in their male counterparts--to please the teacher and meet his or her rhetorical expectations at the expense of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Secondary Education, Self Concept, Self Expression
