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Peer reviewedBurns, Robert A. – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Discusses using comics in high school and college writing and English classes to teach figurative language and other literary terms and techniques such as style and descriptive writing. Describes several activities and notes benefits of using comics in this way. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comics (Publications), Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Peer reviewedCrabb, Alfred L., Jr. – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Describes a class writing exercise for high school and college English classes (which functions well early in the first semester), which emphasizes a basic idea (that close inspection of a subject will reveal that there is a lot to say about it) by having students describe in detail a person's face, first as a class and then individually. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, High Schools
Peer reviewedSpector, Ann D. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: High school and college. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: I used this mini-unit to initiate the class in working effectively as a peer group. Moreover, the task I assigned demands that students develop an awareness of their audience's needs by providing an immediate and concrete response. THE APPROACH: (1)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Descriptive Writing, High Schools
