Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ357953
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
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Better Writing Through Rhetorically-Based Assignments.
Weiser, Irwin
Journal of Teaching Writing, v6 n1 p41-47 Spr 1987
Argues that the perennial problem of boring student writing is solved when assignments provide writers with target readers, enabling students to find their appropriate voice. Discusses a sample assignment in which students explain how to do something they do well to readers who don't know how to do it. (JG)
Descriptors: Assignments, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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