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Rachel Schechter; Rumeysa Yucel – Online Submission, 2024
The insufficient focus on developing writing instruction in education is a significant problem. Despite the crucial link between writing and reading skills and their impact on academic and life success, there is a notable lack of emphasis on writing in schools. Writing A-Z is a digital-first program that helps teachers establish a writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments
Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Graham, Steve – International Literacy Association, 2020
Reading is seen by many as an essential ingredient for learning to write. Is the relationship between reading and writing reciprocal? Does the path to better reading involve becoming a good writer? The answer to these questions presents a paradox. One does not have to learn to write in order to learn to read, as learning how to write or type words…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Writing Skills
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Teeter, Jennifer – English Language Teaching, 2015
In this study, a qualitative analysis of 276 first-year Japanese university science major responses to plagiarism to deconstruct prevailing generalizations regarding the incidence of plagiarism by Japanese university students. These students were enrolled in a compulsory yearlong English academic writing course. While utilizing a contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, College Students, Science Instruction
Frost, Helen – Teachers & Writers, 2001
Addresses students' writing that often requires special attention. Considers this in relation to violent fantasies. Discusses censorship in relation to student writing. Recommends finding out whether the law requires educators to report any evidence of illegal activity to the police. (SG)
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Behavior, Violence
Ediger, Marlow – 1991
Writing must receive major emphasis in teaching-learning situations. There are important differences between creative endeavors and those that involve role learning and exact answers. Creativity emphasizes the novel, the unique, the original, and the open-ended. Creativity should stress writing across the curriculum, and should involve reading and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Poetry
Whitehead, David – 1998
Suggesting that students can be independent thinkers and writers, this book helps teachers implement an effective factual thinking and writing program into elementary, middle, and high schools. It demonstrates six different models of factual writing: narratives, procedures, descriptions, reports, explanations, and arguments. An introduction is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Text Structure, Thinking Skills, Writing Assignments
Noethe, Sheryl; Collom, Jack – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Describes five poetry assignments and presents examples of students' poetry written in response to the assignments. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models
Stone, Robin – 2001
Writing classes ought to be among the most creative environments imaginable, but sadly, some writing teachers seem to think that their own writing ability, in proximity, is enough to get students started. A good writing teacher must be a constant student of creativity, always searching for new ways to teach, new inspirations, new forms of…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Writing
Hermsen, Terry – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Presents five lessons designed to use art to inspire students to write. Notes that students can gain a certain focus from art but that they can also veer toward writing shapeless, rambling stories that fail to create pictures in the reader's mind. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
Brazil, Gino T. – New Mexico English Journal, 1990
Suggests that an effective way to develop students' writing abilities is to teach writing through journalism. Discusses the successes the author has had in incorporating journalistic writing strategies into elementary and secondary English/language arts classrooms. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Assignments
Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Offers 2 favorite writing activities for the computer lab: (1) students write about 100 words of the beginning and end of a favorite fiction book, while another student fills in the middle; and (2) students choose from 1 of 3 plot twists, write at least 5 sentences, and then write 3 more plot twists for the next student. (SR)
Descriptors: Computers, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Writing Assignments
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Herrick, Michael J. – English Quarterly, 1994
Describes how a writing teacher has his students write about one object in the four modes (description, narration, argumentation, and exposition) as a means of learning about writing and writing to learn. Suggests that students learn about their topics when they write about them in the four modes. (SR)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Narration
Ediger, Marlow – 1992
Writing is a fundamental skill for students to develop. A learning environment should be in evidence which assists students to achieve more optimally in writing. Writing activities should be interesting, purposeful, meaningful, and provide for individual differences. Students need stimulating learning opportunities involving a variety of purposes…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
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McAlpine, Gwen; Putney, Dawn; Warren, Janice – ALAN Review, 1997
Describes an approach, called "dependent authorship," to reading literature and writing literature that is used in the middle grades through the college level and that is effective both in teaching writing and in promoting careful reading. Notes that students use a published literary work as a foundation for their own creative writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
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Ewoldt, Carolyn; Miller, Etta – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Techniques are discussed for encouraging students to write thoughtful papers about field trips. Greater student involvement can be achieved by cultivating a sense of ownership of the writing. Topics for before, during, and after the trip are suggested in such functional writing areas as instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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