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Peer reviewedMcDonald, Susan Waugh – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Describes the organization of a writing workshop for women, and the characteristics unique to a group of women students that made the course successful. (HTH)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Creative Writing, Females, Two Year Colleges
Peer reviewedDebs, Mary Beth; Brillhart, Lia V. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Describes an experimental course in content area writing in engineering taught at Triton College (Illinois). (HTH)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedSpeer, Tom; Ryan, Barrie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Describes the authors' ongoing collaborative teaching and encourages instructors to try it. Points out various ways that collaborative teaching can take place. Examines values and assumptions underlying collaborative teaching. Presents results of a case study looking at major benefits to classes and students, major benefits to instructors, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBrickman, Bette – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2003
Describes the development and implementation of an online writing course for advanced English as a Second Language students. Indicates that, with the commitment, support, and patience of the institutional administration, faculty, and students, Internet courses can be effective modes of instruction. (SG)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLaurenty, Yvonne G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Details a first-year college composition course that blends journalism instruction with first-year composition. Describes how students learn about news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and complete a profile writing project which encourages a level of discourse that bears closer kinship to everyday workplace writing.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Feature Stories, Freshman Composition, Journalism Education
Direct linkShor, Ira – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2005
Two-year campuses are known for students who contend with extraordinary obstacles to get degrees and for teachers who make the efforts required to get the job done. The author contends that, because dedicated teachers and striving students deserve more than college, government, and corporate policy allow them, instructors need to raise the profile…
Descriptors: Social Class, Teaching Methods, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
Peer reviewedBain, Bob – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Provides a suggested outline for a teacher education course for writing teachers that emphasizes both rhetorical theory and practice. (MKM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Descriptions, English Teacher Education, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedO'Brien, Kathy Mosdal; Denny, Chuck – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Describes how instructors at two different colleges in Montana (a tribal college and a distant community college) collaboratively teach composition courses (using the same reading and assignments, and doing peer revision for each other). Describes how this approach breaks through cultural, ideological, intellectual "containments;"…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions
