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Elder, Dana C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Proposes assigning polemics, suasive essays, and paradoxical encomia as a means to help students write in classical civic discourse forms, which enfranchise the personal in the service of the community. Presents guidelines for each assignment. (NH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Personal Writing
Allen, Sheilah – 1989
For the second-, third-, and fourth-year education students (all of them English majors) enrolled in a course about the psycholinguistic basis of the writing process, each 3-hour class involved writing about writing, free writing, discussing readings on writing, trying out writing activities, and reflecting on writing about learning. The course…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Vultaggio, Barbara – 1989
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans offers practical suggestions for developing high school students' writing skills. The 37 lesson plans in this book are divided into four sections: (1) descriptive; (2) audience/voice; (3) expository; and (4) creative. A user's…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing