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"A Jury of Her Peers" Needs a Jury of Its Peers.
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Flavin, Louise – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Approaches Susan Glaspell's work by uniting role playing and reader response to foster student understanding of their values of the text. (CRH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Drama, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response
On Dramatizing the Script in the Classroom.
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Friedman, Richard F. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Advocates having students stage drama, especially Elizabethan, to discover the production values that add meaning to the text. (CRH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Drama, Dramatics, Production Techniques
A Creative Approach to the Research Paper: Combining Creative Writing with Academic Research
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Blue, Tim – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2006
This article describes a combination of a research essay and a creative writing assignment that encourages rigorous academic research while allowing students to get "outside the box" of traditional academic research papers. This assignment has five steps. The first two steps offer the chance to introduce academic research along with summary and…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Research Papers (Students), Research Skills
In Praise of Reader-Response: Validating Student Voices in the Literature Classroom.
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Boyle, Priscilla K. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Describes a modified method of reader-response used as a core activity in a literature classroom in which students write a short written response at the beginning of every class to the reading due that day. Describes the procedure, its relationship to effective writing, and its benefits, including reading more critically, writing more effectively,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Motivation