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Hood, Mike – 1989
The idea-centered freshman composition program at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina, functions not only to meet the immediate needs of freshmen writers, but also to promote the aims of liberal education. The program has three interrelated goals: (1) to engage freshmen writers in "college thinking," defined as giving…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Download full textVanderBilt, Deborah; Nicolay, Theresa – 1995
The introductory writing course, English 101, at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, has gone through several stages in the last decade, changing from a course emphasizing writing in the rhetorical modes to an issue-oriented interdisciplinary course, to, at the present time, a course focusing on the writing process and on collaborative…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Freshmen, Consultants, Cooperative Learning
