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Peer reviewedDietrich, Julia C. – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Presents a method for helping students learn to evaluate data, draw conclusions, and state a most probable hypothesis in writing essays. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedWess, Robert C. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
Describes an essay writing assignment that combines points from R. D. Kepes' futuristic point of view and V. E. Frankl's real life projections. (FL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Peer reviewedCorder, 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
Peer reviewedRansdell, D. R.; Glau, Gregory R. – English Journal, 1996
Reports on a survey of college freshmen concerning how their high school teachers prepared them or could have prepared them better for college writing expectations. Reviews results that suggest that those students who wrote the least scored the lowest in college placement exams. (TB)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Essays, High Schools
Preston, Fred, Ed. – 1978
Designed to be immediately useful and practical for language arts teachers in the secondary schools, the six articles in this monograph are illustrative not only of methods but of pedagogical processes that are the components of successful teaching. The first article offers more than 20 ways of motivating and involving the nonreader and describes…
Descriptors: Drama, English Instruction, Essays, Language Arts
HOOK, J.N. – 1963
THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR USE WITH STUDENTS WHO CAN PROFIT FROM INSTRUCTION IN VIGOROUS AND COLORFUL WRITING. EMPHASIS IS PLACED UPON SHOWING THE STUDENT THAT HIS OWN EXPERIENCE IS RICHER THAN HE MAY SUPPOSE AND UPON HELPING HIM TO DRAW FROM IT. THE FIRST SECTION OF THE BOOK CONSIDERS THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SUBJECT, THEME, OBSERVATION, SENSORY…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E.; Kral, Elmer A. – Educational Forum, 1985
This article presents 10 practical teaching procedures to encourage students to develop formal reasoning skills. A twelfth-grade English course is used as an example. Procedures include pretesting, sequencing instruction, providing students with concrete experiences, discussing reasoning patterns and forms of argumentation, assigning argumentative…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Debate
Download full textEducation Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1972
This is the third National Assessment report on the writing of children aged 9, 13, and 17, and young adults. The three exercises used in the writing assessment were: Age 9: The Forest Fire Exercise; Age 13: The Famous Person Exercise; and Age 17: The Famous Person Exercise. An exercise for young adults (Adults: The Commissioner Stroud Letter)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing
Brigman, S. Leellen; Leiter, Virginia G. – 1979
The quantity and type of writing demands in the undergraduate curriculum, as reported by students enrolled at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University in fall semester of 1977, are investigated. The study is based on reports of students enrolled in 27 class sections of two freshman English courses, Elementary Composition I and Introduction to…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Curriculum, College Freshmen, College Students
