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Scheer, Steven C. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Recommends the use of a fictitious term paper with stringent format requirements, but without content, to enable students to concentrate on format. Emphasizes that the assignment gives students an opportunity to experience school as play. (MS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Expository Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Duin, Ann Hill – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Noting that students in groups learn more effectively when working cooperatively than when working competitively or individualistically, presents guidelines, assignments, and class activities designed to foster cooperative learning. Describes such student-student interaction sessions as describing sense perception details, receiving peer feedback,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Heuristics