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Peer reviewedMyers, Doris T. – Exercise Exchange, 1976
Describes an advanced expository writing class set up as a quarter-long "survival game," the object of which is to write 7,000 words of satisfactory prose and receive an A for the course. (JM)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Game Theory, Higher Education, Teaching Styles
Peer reviewedSpigelmire, Lynne – Exercise Exchange, 1981
Argues that peer review is a necessary prelude to teaching students how to revise their own writing. Outlines a peer review procedure and provides a copy of an assignment sheet used by students in evaluating each other's compositions. (FL)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSailer, Susan Shaw – Exercise Exchange, 1980
Suggests a graphic way of helping students limit the thesis for a paper to one main area and then further limit it to one point. (TJ)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedBrown, Stephen G. – Exercise Exchange, 1996
Provides pointers for incorporating the use of metaphors, alliteration, restating of the thesis, answering questions by reiteration of the thesis, and other ideas for writing an effective conclusion in high school and college papers. (PA)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Figurative Language, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWeill, Lawrence V. – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Proposes "organizational trees" as a means of helping students understand that each sentence in an essay must have purpose and direction. (FL)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Expository Writing, Higher Education, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedBrookes, Timothy – Exercise Exchange, 1976
Presents exercises for two subjects which students find among the less interesting: constructing arguments and writing expository prose, especially factual reporting. (JM)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBoulanger, David R. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Describes an assignment that urges expository writers to pursue their own interests and create a fully developed prose project that they will be eager to share. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Experiential Learning, Expository Writing, High Schools
Peer reviewedKing, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
Peer reviewedWilliams, Jerri Knowlton – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Considers how writing teachers can help students become more inventive writers. Gives different techniques for developing invention skills. Outlines an approach for fostering invention in writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Essays, Expository Writing
Peer reviewedKurata, Marilyn – Exercise Exchange, 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: At my university, students are required to take a two course sequence in freshman composition, EH 101 and EH 102. EH 101 covers six basic essay forms utilizing description, narration, process description, classification, comparison/contrast, and argument. Because EH 101 is a basic, required course,…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
Peer reviewedPytlik, Betty P.; Bergdahl, David – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Provides eight sequential, process-oriented writing assignments: (1) diagnostic essay, (2) personal account, (3) ghost writing, (4) summary, (5) developing a thesis, (6) exploratory essay, (7) proposal, and (8) final paper. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
