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Download full textKirsh, Steven J. – 1998
Writing assignments involving newspaper portfolios or analyzing the content of a film (animated or live action) are interesting because they help students become involved with course content and improve students' critical thinking. A study examined writing assignments of these types from 21 students taking two sections of a course on child…
Descriptors: Animation, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
Nelson, Jennie – 1992
A naturalistic study of 21 college students (at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania) writing research papers provides detailed analyses of the roles that notetaking, planning, goal-setting, and revising play in students' approaches and examines whether these "high investment" reading and writing processes lead to higher quality…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Reading Processes, Research Papers (Students)
Goldthorpe, Jeffrey – 1993
A study examined whether assigning students to write analytically in response to video texts can lead to students becoming more critical viewers of television. A 30-second television commercial was shown to a freshman composition class with limited visual literacy training and to a class without such media literacy training. Students in both…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing
