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Gray, Donald – English Education, 1986
Discusses the connections between the study of literary texts, language, and composition and the impact of these connections on English instruction and English programs. (SRT)
Descriptors: English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Arts
Padgett, Ron, Ed. – 1991
Fifteen poets have created this guide to teaching the work of Walt Whitman from kindergarten to college level. In essays based on the personal experience of these imaginative writers, the guide presents practical ideas for fresh ways to read Whitman and to write poetry and prose inspired by him. The guide also includes three pieces on education by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Hobgood, Jayne M. – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Describes how the author has her students create "found poems" and use them in conjunction with the students' own Readers/Writers Logs to help students make more of a text, own it, and discover the power of effective language. Includes instructions, student samples of found poems, and samples of the entire process. (SR)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Literature Appreciation, Poetry
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Corse, Sandra – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Reviews some of the basic notions of semiotics to show how they can be applied to composition teaching. (FL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Usage, Nonverbal Communication
Williams, Barbara M. – 1989
Activities related to women's issues are many and varied at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, but it is doubtful how much of this sensitivity trickles down into actual literature courses. Efforts at moving students away from passive reading and into a more critical stance that would promote active engagement with texts must be encouraged…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Gender Issues
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Canaday, Elizabeth – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Describes a half-year curriculum called "Portraits," developed by three middle school teachers in collaboration with the education department of a museum, in which students learn and practice the skills involved in visual observation and apply them to reading and writing: precise observation of detail, accurate inference based on these facts, and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, English Instruction, Intermediate Grades
Ray, Ruth E. – 1993
This book offers teachers a convenient means of broadening their understanding of various kinds of composition theory and the steadily emerging field of teacher research by high school and college instructors. The book is designed to arouse individual teachers' interest in composition theory and encourage them to learn about and participate in…
Descriptors: College English, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Feminism
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Buley-Meissner, Mary Louise – Journal of Education, 1990
Recent composition and literary theory suggests that the "I" of written discourse is illusory and does not represent an autonomous self. Argues for the development of a self-conscious voice in college writers that interprets in addition to merely recording events, a voice enabling students to enter into dialogue with teachers, texts, and…
Descriptors: College English, College Students, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking
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Miller, Susan – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1984
Examines the experience of reading student writing by holding it against current views of reading from literary theory and composition studies. Describes this experience as a concentrated effort at once to read and not to "read" the student writing. (MS)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
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Horning, Alice S. – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1986
Offers an approach to text analysis that discusses what makes good writing good. Argues that good writing involves the presentation of propositions that are not too dense, in a schema that is familiar or explained carefully, requiring not much inference on the part of the reader, and in a pattern that is coherent from beginning to end. (MS)
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Higher Education
Reid, Louann, Ed.; Golub, Jeffrey N., Ed. – 1999
This book offers successful classroom practices that encourage students to learn purposefully and constructively by reflecting on their own learning processes and by making connections between what they read (whether verbal or visual texts) and the lives they lead. Extending from middle and high school through college composition and English…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
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
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