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What Works for Me.
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Roth, Audrey; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1993
Offers five tips from writing teachers on writing activities that work well in their classrooms. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Assignments
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Houston, Linda; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Contains one-paragraph descriptions from six college English instructors describing successful lessons and techniques used in the classroom. Covers collaborative teaching with letter writing; notetaking and paraphrasing; a first day ice-breaking activity; a writing development check; linking assignments in basic writing; and a descriptive writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Higher Education
A Writing Exercise with the "OED."
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Burkle-Young, Francis A. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Describes a writing exercise with the "Oxford English Dictionary" that teaches students about research and attention to detail. Describes how the exercise, which involves the student in a set of serial tasks, makes students comfortable with the OED, teaches them how to extract full details of any word, and teaches students to take…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Higher Education, Research Skills
Developing Sensitivity to Audience: Connecting Theory and Practice.
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Durrant, Karen R.; Duke, Charles R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Presents results of a six-week research project in a creative writing class that focused on developing audience sensitivity among students. Describes three units combining social, rhetorical, and informational perspectives. Concludes that a sequential approach seems to increase audience sensitivity among students. (KEH)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Creative Writing
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Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Describes five writing activities for college writing courses: (1) a documented opinion paper exercise; (2) breaking writing rules; (3) trip reports from absentees; (4) case studies to promote writing for particular audiences for pragmatic purposes; and (5) an organizing strategy for studying, using a chart format. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Descriptive Writing, Postsecondary Education