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Direct linkMcLaughlin, Frost; Moore, Miriam – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
When writing teachers at any level get together to assess student essays, they often disagree in their evaluations of the writing at hand. This is no surprise as writing is a complex process, and in evaluating it, teachers go through a complex sequence of thoughts before emerging with an overall assessment. Critical thinking, or the complexity of…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Processes, Critical Thinking, Essays
Raymond, Richard C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
As a teacher of technical writing, the author applauds the emphasis on the strategies of research and on documented, problem-solving writing across the curriculum and on bringing writing-for-the-workplace into the first-year writing classroom. However, as a teacher of literature, he rejects the notion that responding to literature has no practical…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Technical Writing, Research, Problem Solving
Thonney, Teresa – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
Given the current emphasis on disciplinary discourses, it's not surprising that so little recent attention has been devoted to identifying conventions that are universal in academic discourse. In this essay, the author argues that there are shared features that unite academic writing, and that by introducing these features to first-year students…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Discourse, Freshman Composition, Sports Medicine
Camp, Heather; Bolstad, Teresa – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
Learning communities are common on two- and four-year college campuses. Estimates suggest that they exist on four to five hundred campuses and can be found in most states. Such numbers signal that interest in learning communities is going strong, and there are indications that on two-year college campuses, interest continues to grow. As…
Descriptors: Campuses, Writing (Composition), Community Colleges, Educational Benefits
Millward, Jody – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
In 2005, supported by a Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative Grant and Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) volunteers, the TYCA Research Initiative Committee distributed the first national survey of two-year college writing programs. This online survey explored two-year college programs, praxis,…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Across the Curriculum, College English, College Programs
Roberts, Leslie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
In 2005, supported by a Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative Grant and Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) volunteers, the TYCA Research Initiative Committee distributed the first national survey of two-year college writing programs. This online survey explored two-year college programs and…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, College English, College Programs, Teaching Conditions
