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Direct linkGouge, Catherine – College English, 2009
Because hybrid first-year college writing programs are an emerging phenomenon, it is important for composition specialists to identify their potential strengths and possible disadvantages. The author reviews the various forms that such programs have taken so far, and she engages in an extended critique of one particular institution's model,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Technology Uses in Education, Writing Instruction, Blended Learning
Peer reviewedHansen, Barbara – College English, 1978
Describes a study which showed that rewriting had no significant value in improving students' composition skills. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedDionne, Roger – College English, 1975
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Communication (Thought Transfer), English Instruction, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedSimpson, Mary Scott – College English, 1978
Describes an approach to teaching freshman composition which begins with the study of the power of words. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Semantics, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedKlein, James – College English, 1974
Describes one college teacher's approach to teaching freshmen composition courses. (TO)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedBattle, Martha – College English, 1977
Describes techniques of teaching writing as individual experience. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Student Experience, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSouthwell, Michael G. – College English, 1977
Presents the benefits of using free writing to teach remedial composition. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Free Writing, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction
Peer reviewedBranscomb, H. Eric – College English, 1976
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Narration, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSchultz, John – College English, 1977
Describes such Story Workshop activities as beginning recall exercises, word exercises, oral readings, writing assignments, and tutorial conferences. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedProffitt, Edward – College English, 1976
Presents eight exercises used in teaching freshman composition students to write poetry. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Poetry
Peer reviewedMalloch, A. E. – College English, 1976
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Plagiarism
Peer reviewedChaika, Elaine – College English, 1974
Presents a theory of teaching basic English grammar in freshmen composition courses as a means of teaching students how to write coherent sentences and comprehend English syntax. (TO)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Grammar, Verbal Communication
Peer reviewedBoegeman, Margaret Byrd – College English, 1980
Defends personal writing in the college classroom against charges that it is informal, exclusively narrative, nonutilitarian, uncritical, and solipsistic. (DD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Creative Writing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCarkeet, David – College English, 1977
Analyzes sentences by remedial college students which contain typical errors. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedBrosnahan, Leger – College English, 1976
In-class reading of students' writing should be the entire business of freshman composition class meetings. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Self Evaluation, Student Evaluation
