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Download full textButler, John; And Others – Kansas English, 1972
This edition of the "Bulletin of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English" consists primarily of articles on composition, with special attention to the composing process. John F. Butler, in "On Teaching Composition," discusses strategies for meeting two goals in college composition: teaching the more artful use of language and teaching the…
Descriptors: College Students, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Student Centered Curriculum
Peer reviewedStewart, Donald C. – Change, 1976
A historical review since the late 1800s suggests that criticism of student writing ability has been a perennial problem and that similar reasons for it have been cited for nearly a century. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Students, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Stamatakos, L. C. – Southern College Personnel Association Journal, 1979
Describes steps taken in order to make a contribution to professional literature and the practice of the profession. These steps include research, writing, review, retyping, simmering, final review and submitting. Professional writing should be substantive and scholarly. (JAC)
Descriptors: College Students, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Publications
Palumbo, Roberta M. – 1977
An advanced writing course that does not repeat freshman English materials and techniques can encourage a variety of students to become enthusiastic about writing. One such course focuses on three writing modes: the poetic, the informative, and the persuasive. For the poetic mode, students write informal essays; for the informative mode, they…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Students, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Waldrep, Thomas D. – 1977
Francis Christensen's Rhetoric Program stresses narrative-descriptive and expository writing, and offers a guide for the structure of the paragraph. In this approach, students develop their composition skills by writing sentences similar to model sentences that Christensen has extracted from the works of successful writers. The basic model is the…
Descriptors: College Students, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Expository Writing
Mills, Helen – 1973
As an alternative to the conflict among college composition teachers who are either repressive and authoritarian or permissive and lenient, a middle course offers teachers the latitude of encouraging free writing for some students and directed writing for other students, both of which may be responses to students' needs to express themselves. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Master, Peter – 1981
Suggestions are presented to assist the nontechnically trained English as a second language teacher to create a syllabus for a technical writing course for foreign students who are studying science and technology. The syllabus for the English for Science and Technology (EST) writing course is based on the format of technical writing derived from…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Descriptive Writing, English for Special Purposes
