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Kytle, Ray – College Composition and Communication, 1970
Includes a sequence of questions and answers used to help one identify, define, limit, and analyze a topic prior to asserting a personal point of view about it in writing. (RD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Literary Perspective, Readiness
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Connors, Robert J. – College Composition and Communication, 2000
Examines the sentence-based pedagogies that arose in composition during the 1960s and 1970s (the generative rhetoric of Francis Christensen, imitation exercises, and sentence-combining) and attempts to discern why these three pedagogies have been so completely elided within contemporary composition studies. Concludes that this erasure of sentence…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
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Gordon, Helen H. – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Suggests clustering can help students of any ability level draw upon latent images and ideas, generate more original sentences, and experiment with metaphor and simile. (MS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cluster Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Brown, Clark – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Common approaches to composition teaching are satirized. (JH)
Descriptors: English Departments, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
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Strickland, James – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Describes the use of a succession of freshman English assignments that begins with a paper not based on research and concludes with a paper based on extensive research, designed to prepare students for term paper assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Research Papers (Students)
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Sherman, Dean – College Composition and Communication, 1972
Describes a course in which students first research a magazine'' and then submit their writing for publication. (SP)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, English Instruction, Relevance (Education), Research Skills
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Corder, Jim W. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
One can learn a great deal about teaching composition by writing the essays he assigns to students to write. (JH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Essays, Expository Writing
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Baden, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Creative Development, Creative Expression
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Brooke, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Suggests an alternative understanding of imitation, according to which a student learns by imitating another person, rather than a text or process. Proposes that composition teaching works when it effectively models an identity which students can accept. (MS)
Descriptors: College English, Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Freshman Composition