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Kadavy, Casey; Chuppa-Cornell, Kim – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
At the beginning of each school year, the Languages and Humanities Division at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) meets to discuss first-year composition matters. Faculty leave the workshop renewed by the collaboration and buoyed by the promise and potential of a new semester. Yet, when classes actually begin, faculty may find that they are…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Virtual Classrooms, Librarians, Humanities
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Armstrong, Sonya L; Paulson, Eric J. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
In two-year college writing classrooms and beyond, peer review is one of the most widely used tools for helping students improve their writing. Despite its widespread usage, however, it is one of the most diffuse, inconsistent, and ambiguous practices associated with writing instruction. This essay aims to explore the widely varying terminology…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Editing, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
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Timmons, Theresa Cullen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Indicates that using highlighters to mark errors produced a 76% class improvement in removing comma errors and a 95.5% improvement in removing apostrophe errors. Outlines two teaching procedures, to be followed before introducing this tool to the class, that enable students to remove errors at this effective rate. (JD)
Descriptors: Editing, Instructional Materials, Punctuation, Revision (Written Composition)