Offers definitions of some jargon terms frequently used in the composition research and teaching field. (HTH)

Describes rewriting examples of good writing into "ordinary" writing, to identify what elements of style made the original version so effective. (HTH)

Suggests motivating writing apprehensive students by asking them to "remodel" passages from novels, magazines, or newspapers that have been stripped of details, descriptions, and compound sentences. (HTH)

Presents worksheets formulated for high school juniors and seniors to help them learn rules for punctuation. (HTH)

Describes a lesson designed to lead students to explore the language structure of the language rather than merely memorize grammatical rules. (FL)

Describes seven activities for teaching students "researched writing"--activities that offer possibilities for active and interactive researching, writing, and thinking, and that include small group work, discussion, and other activities. (SR)

Describes a writing assignment (useful for junior high through college age students) that seeks to improve students' descriptive writing through a set of class writing assignments using visual and concrete objects. Allows students to gain awareness, gain knowledge and discuss it, and ask questions as a body of learners rather than in isolation.…

Describes eight assorted activities, all based on the use of almanacs, that offer high-interest activities developing skills which students can use in other, later work--activities that can be interspersed throughout the year during those unplannable days that occur at the ends of units, on days before breaks, or when everyone needs a break from…

Offers a sequence of assignments to help students understand that metaphors are not confined to literature texts and are not confined to single sentences. (HTH)

Describes a six-phase writing assignment for ESL students to help them grasp the concept of an audience beyond the writing instructor. (HTH)

Presents a positive, detailed scheme for evaluating students' papers. Includes an example of student writing with marks from the guide. (HTH)

Describes a method for teaching several novels simultaneously to students in the same English classroom. Provides a list of questions to be answered by students at various stages of reading a particular novel. (HB)

Describes a writing exercise for middle schoolers to college students that encourages students to become more aware of language, especially word choice and audience in their writing, by writing lipograms (compositions from which all words containing a certain letter are omitted). Notes it can be used as a pre-revision activity, part of a poetry…

Presents step-by-step instructions to help developmental writing students write a cohesive essay by combining individually written paragraphs. (HTH)

Provides a step-by-step approach to teaching students the elements of poetry, such as similes, acrostics, metaphors, and odes. Copies of handouts are included. (HTH)