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Lillge, Danielle – Across the Disciplines, 2012
Widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in the United States has resulted in an unprecedented set of national secondary school writing standards that shift responsibility for writing instruction across content areas. As secondary school teachers grapple with these new demands, this article proposes that WAC can serve as a key…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Common Core State Standards, Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students
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College English, 1985
Critics comment on three earlier "College English" articles: Mike Rose's "The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University," Elizabeth A. Nist's "Tattle's Well's Faire: English Women Authors of the Sixteenth Century," and Patrick Hartwell's "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar." Contains responses from Mike Rose and…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, English Instruction, Feminism
Suhor, Charles – 1983
Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication instruction to classroom practice, this booklet discusses three visual models of teaching written composition. The first section of the booklet discusses the content area model, which begins with an abstraction presented to students (definitions of parts of…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Larson, Richard L. – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Cites and annotates 79 scholarly articles in composition and rhetoric drawn from books, monographs, and periodicals published in 1985-86. Excludes reviews of individual books, textbooks, teaching guides (unless theoretically focused), historical surveys, and elementary-secondary education studies. Emphasizes writings on new approaches, theories,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
Hayes, Mary F., Ed.; And Others – 1983
Prepared by classroom teachers, the papers in this collection synthesize their own teaching experiences with recent writing research revelations. Among the topics covered in the 37 papers are (1) computers in the English classroom, (2) values clarification and the teaching of autobiographical writing, (3) using journals, (4) grammar instruction,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cerebral Dominance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Writing
Ahern, Jennifer; Bishop, Wendy; Briggs, Terri L.; Chapman, Joe; Davis, Kevin; Fay, Jennifer A.; Gillen, N. Kent; Harrill, Rob; Haswell, Richard H.; Loomis, Ormond; Melzer, Daniel; Methvin, Holly; Shupala, Andrew M.; Trevino, Sylvia – 1998
This 1997 annotated bibliography of 244 items updates an earlier 87-item annotated bibliography. The current annotated bibliography focuses on the relationship between reading and writing as it bears upon the teaching of composition. Items looking at writing as a way of teaching reading, and items focused exclusively upon writer-based concerns…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Woodruff, Barbara Bilson, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1989
With each issue focusing on different themes, volume 16 of "Inside English" looks at writing programs and critical thinking, developmental writing and the plight of part-time faculty, teaching literature and study abroad programs, and English as a Second Language (ESL) and English programs. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, College English, College Faculty
Bishop, Wendy; Davis, Kevin – 1986
Intended as an introduction to the literature on the reading/writing relationship, this annotated bibliography covers the areas of theory, research, and pedagogy. The citations include journal articles, conference proceedings, conference papers, books, dissertations, and monographs. (SRT)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1986
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 13 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction