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Simpkins, Neil – Composition Forum, 2018
This article offers the term "accommodation transfer" as a way to understand the rhetorical skills disabled students transfer alongside writing knowledge as they access college writing assignments and writing classrooms. This study is based on five qualitative interviews with disabled college students and draws upon both writing transfer…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Disabilities, College Students, Writing Assignments
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Escobar Alméciga, Wilder Yesid; Evans, Reid – HOW, 2014
The purpose of the present pedagogical experience was to address the English language writing needs of university-level students pursuing a degree in bilingual education with an emphasis in the teaching of English. Using mentor texts and coding academic writing structures, an instructional design was developed to directly address the shortcomings…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Discourse, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
Villanueva, Victor, Jr., Ed. – 1997
Intended for experienced teachers of composition and for graduate student of composition studies, this collection of essays represents an overview of the last 30 years of composition theory--a near chronology of the profession's changes, from process to cohesion to cognition to social construction to ideology. The 41 essays and their authors…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational History, Higher Education, Student Needs
Lott, Joyce Greenberg – 1996
Many high school English teachers rank their priorities according to the expectations of the institution in which they work. The scope of high school English teachers' jobs also differs from that of their college sisters and brothers. The former see themselves as accountable for the growth of the whole child, in addition to the growth of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English Curriculum
Lupack, Barbara Tepa – 1983
A writing across the curriculum program offers an organized and systematic approach to involving all departments in the development of student literacy. Among preliminary steps in implementing these programs are (1) a review of the literature on student literacy, (2) a local assessment of college students' literacy needs, (3) a local assessment of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Communication Skills, Content Area Writing
Best, Linda – 1987
A college student of intermediate to advanced English as a second language (ESL) is still constantly trying to identify the rules governing the language and making and correcting mistakes. Sociolinguistic theory can help to understand this type of active, advanced learner and the instructional strategies that complement this learning style. Four…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)