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Washington, Gene – 1991
If writing teachers want to use modality effectively, they first have to deal with three problems: identification of markers of modality in English; representation (the use of models for modality); and correlation (pedagogical usefulness, and writing strategies for students). Two models of modality address the problems which writing teachers…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Models, Writing Assignments
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Liss, Julie M.; Hanson, Stephanie D. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1993
Examines several variables that may interact to affect the success of writing in science courses and provides some student views on these assignments. (PR)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Science Education, Science Instruction
Fulton, Jean C. – 1998
Students sometimes respond to writing assignments automatically, almost as if they were a generic form, rather than by investigating the idiosyncrasies and unexpected possibilities of each assignment. Writing assignments can be structured to help students transcend such habits, shifting the focus from accumulating information to creating meaning…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Poetry, Student Development
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O'Flaherty, Kathleen M. – Teaching Sociology, 1992
Describes a written assignment designed to help students develop a framework for understanding the meaning of the concept of social imagination. Defines social imagination as a pattern of questioning and understanding the world. Suggests that students must develop a mindset that allows them to understand the intersection between personal biography…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Life Events, Social History, Sociology
Bolin, Bill – 1992
In the many different stages of the writing process, teachers of composition need to be sensitive toward cultural differences which may exist between them and their students. Large numbers of foreign students participate in writing courses in American colleges, and research indicates that the minority student population will increase sharply in…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education, Multicultural Education
Beaupre, Barbara – 2000
The assumption for many college professors is that academic discourse is a hallmark of the educated, a form of communication accepted and expected both academically and professionally. Typically, academic discourse entails the conventions of a particular discipline's writing form. A writing center tutor and administrator must find ways to teach…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Student Needs, Tutors
Bolling, Anna L. – 1993
Combining the journal writing process with the concepts of collaboration can produce more focused writing and learning. Through the channel of collaborative situations, such as group journal writing, teachers can capitalize on the benefits achieved from the collaborative process and cultivate thinking and writing skills. A group journal writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Cole, SuzAnne C. – 1990
After students' interest in literature has been stirred by journal writing, it is time for them to turn their private journal writing into writing for an audience. Instead of having students write the usual responses to literature, vary their assignments by offering them creative responses, either occasionally or as an individual alternative to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Haake, Katharine – 2000
This book explores the intersections of creative writing, composition, feminism, and critical theory in ways that speak powerfully to each discipline. It offers provocative considerations of writing and teaching, side by side with practical features including sample assignments and ready to use classroom strategies, as well as a glossary of terms…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism
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Reeves, Carol – College Teaching, 1996
Encouraging students' use of satire, irony, and parody in college writing assignments is recommended to help students voice their concerns, think critically, and discover how a form of discourse contributes to both form and substance of the writing. Samples of student work illustrating the effectiveness of this approach are offered. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humor
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Carlson, Janet F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a series of writing assignments in which entry level graduate students in a personality theory class wrote four short papers interpreting the personality of a character from a children's story or comic strip. Explains that each paper utilized a different theoretical orientation: psychoanalytic, dispositional, phenomenological, and…
Descriptors: Characterization, Comics (Publications), Fairy Tales, Graduate Students
Ryan, Cynthia A. – 1996
Defining risk communication as the "interactive process of exchange of information and opinion among individuals, groups, and institutions,...involving multiple messages about the nature of risk," this Digest argues that risk communication has much to offer instructors of cultural studies composition who want to revive students' sense of…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Higher Education
Sublett, Michael D. – 1989
Teaching undergraduate students to write required essays for academic courses is the focus of this paper. In a preparatory lecture the instructor explains essay standards and provides instructions for writing essays. An model essay is presented to each class member to be used as a guide for class compositions. The appendix includes an essay of…
Descriptors: Essays, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Dixon, Deborah – 1993
This teaching guide is the result of 3 years of thinking, trying, rethinking, and trying again with an assignment sequence in which one instructor attempted to address the personal as well as the academic needs of students in the Program of Intensive English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. According to the guide, many of these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Roberts, Keith A. – Teaching Sociology, 1993
Asserts that the literature on the use of writing in sociology ignores a systematic view of how writing relates to the discipline of sociology. Examines C. Wright Mills' concept of "sociological imagination." Provides suggestions for teachers who require student writing and seek to help student become better writers. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Social Scientists, Sociology
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