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Moore, Tara; Shaffer, Suzanne C. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Lifelong learning skills have been shown to benefit students during and after college. This paper discusses the use of the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) in a first-year composition course. Reflective writing assignments and pre- and post-semester ELLI data were used to assess student growth as lifelong learners over the course of a…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Academic Achievement, Freshman Composition, College English
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Strovas, Scott – CEA Forum, 2011
"Primary research counts, but we don't teach it." This was the sentiment, if these were not the actual words, of Lynee Lewis Gaillet in her critique of the traditional composition curriculum at the spring 2011 annual meeting of the College English Association in St. Petersburg. Gaillet proposes an alternative to furthering students' sometimes…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, College English, Freshman Composition
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Daemmrich, Ingrid G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Composition teachers have generally embraced collaborative learning in the years since Kenneth Bruffee published his first article promoting its advantages in "College English" in 1972. But assigning collaboratively written papers in an introductory college writing course is still rare. This study assesses the benefits and drawbacks of assigning a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College English, Collaborative Writing, Essays
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Ruecker, Todd – Composition Studies, 2011
English 1311: Expository English Composition is the first semester course in a two-semester first-year composition (FYC) sequence. Both ENG 1311 and its second-semester counterpart, ENG 1312, are required for all students unless they have transfer credit covering this requirement or place out of one or both of the courses via the College-Level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Higher Education
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Elbow, Peter – College English, 1991
Characterizes academic discourse. Argues for the need for some nonacademic writing in freshman writing courses. Discusses the different styles of academic discourse within the field of composition. Notes stylistic conventions of academic discourse. Discusses implications for the teaching of freshman writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
McGlinn, James E.; McGlinn, Jeanne M. – CEA Forum, 1990
Describes a freshman composition course which employs problem-solving exercises as a writing improvement technique. Notes that sharing ideas while solving problems builds new writers' openness and trust, whereas thinking aloud prepares students to benefit from other writers' thinking protocol methods. Suggests that brainstorming can help students…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Nelson, Jennie – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Explores academic writing from the students' side of the desk, examining how different tasks and writing situations influence students' approaches. Finds that responses to assignments depend upon what the students were actually rewarded for producing. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Wong, Penelope A. – 1991
A semester-long, introductory, freshman composition class (24 students) engaged in fieldwork, interviews, workshopping, a literature review, an ethnography, and a final paper allowing the student to critique their experiences with the ethnographic process. The first 2 weeks were spent familiarizing students with the ethnographic process. Through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Ethnography, Freshman Composition
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Diltz, Judith – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2006
The concept of student voice has become a powerful metaphor in college-level writing class. In this article, the author enthusiastically invites her students to activate their "voices." But like healthy self-concept or freedom or individuality, voice only comes from within. It cannot be given, imposed, and "taught." Too many students seem hesitant…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, College Freshmen
Reeves, Carol – 1994
Satirical writing offers a means of encouraging students to criticize those forms of victimization and inequality that trouble them most without that overt, dogmatic indoctrination of a political agenda that many would consider an anathema to democratic teaching. The indirect, satirical jab provides students with an intellectually challenging and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College English, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis
McDonald, James C. – 1990
The freshman research paper is the most institutionalized writing assignment in the academy, with the possible exception of the dissertation, and the research paper in general (of which the dissertation may be a species) is the most institutionalized genre of student writing, at least in the humanities. First, the research paper is the most…
Descriptors: College English, Critical Thinking, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Frye, Bob – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1989
Explains that rhetorical invention can be viewed as an invitation to openness, whereas structure can be a closure. Describes a writing instruction method in which students write replies to the instructor's weekly letters, providing a genuine need that must be genuinely answered. Argues that rhetoric can enhance and enrich life. (SG)
Descriptors: College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Individual Development
Lovas, John C. – 1992
A community college composition instructor with 32 years of teaching experience designed a semester-long writing assignment (developed at De Anza College (California) and also used at University of California, Berkeley) in which students compose a personal intellectual history. The assignment is based on several assumptions, including: (1) writing…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition
Rapaport, Ross J. – 1992
This document describes a form of curriculum infusion for college instruction in which information about alcohol and other drug problems relevant to the content of a course is provided and related assignments are made. Specifically, the paper focuses on an English writing assignment that involved student self-reflection on his or her use or…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College English, College Programs, College Students
Agee, Jane M. – 1993
Many freshmen come to English courses thinking that they generally dislike poetry and that in particular they dislike writing critical essays about poetry. Two strategies which are effective in helping students overcome their own negative perceptions are to allow students to: (1) engage in transactional reader response; and (2) explore poetry…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Creative Writing, Freshman Composition