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Download full textRose, Shirley K., Ed.; Weiser, Irwin, Ed. – 1999
This collection of essays discusses writing program administrators' (WPAs') research. The essays pose several questions to characterize WPAs' research practices: "What is WPA research? What characterizes WPA research and the sites of WPA inquiry?"; and "What values guide WPA research?" The 14 chapters are divided into 2 parts, "Writing Program…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Writing Assignments
Moore, Cindy, Ed.; O'Neill, Peggy, Ed. – 2002
Designed for a broad audience in education, this book offers a realistic look at the wide range of teaching contexts and how writing teachers adapt their pedagogy to their particular circumstances. Specific topics highlighted by individual essays include: basic writing, service learning, online writing, revision, research writing, proofreading and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, High Schools, Higher Education, Teacher Response
Stewart, Richard D., Comp.; Smith, Carl B., Ed. – 1994
This "Hot Topic Guide" on mythic-archetypal methods for the language arts (which address students' inner lives to promote sharing of feelings, intuition, and imagery production in the classroom) is designed for implementation either in a workshop atmosphere or through individual study. Included are suggestions for using the guide as a…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Stillman, Lorry – 2001
For students, the study of the Holocaust encourages discussion about prejudice and justice, shame and dignity, hopelessness and faith, and engages them in debate about the moral and ethical behavior of humankind. Introducing students to the personal narrative, fiction, and poetry allows them to hear a narrative voice recount the facts of this…
Descriptors: Art, European History, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Aston, Jean A., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This casebook is part of a set of materials written by the members of the Making Thinking Visible Project. It offers high school, college, and community college teachers' multiple perspectives on the teaching and learning of collaborative planning, and on classroom inquiry and practice. The casebook explains collaborative planning (a writing…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Gill, Kent, Ed. – 1993
In this collection, English language arts teachers describe methods they use to increase their students' interest in and appreciation of writing. The book focuses on the benefits of using portfolios in assessing student writing and incorporation of the revision process into writing. The 16 essays drawn from the elementary, secondary, and, college…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Arts
Roen, Duane, Ed.; Pantoja, Veronica, Ed.; Yena, Lauren, Ed.; Miller, Susan K., Ed.; Waggoner, Eric, Ed. – 2002
This book presents 93 essays that offer guidance, reassurance, and commentary on the many activities leading up to and surrounding classroom instruction in first-year composition. Essays in the book are written by instructors who teach in community colleges, liberal arts colleges, state university systems, and research institutions. The 14 section…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Mediated Communication, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition
Hurlbert, C. Mark, Ed.; Totten, Samuel, Ed. – 1992
This book presents articles from 25 concerned teachers and professors explaining why and how they integrate inquiry into troubling social issues with the study of language and literature and make it the subject of discussion and writing-to-learn activities. The titles and authors of the 19 contributions to the book are: (1) "Educating for the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Conflict Resolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary Secondary Education
Buerk, Dorothy, Ed. – 1994
This book is a collection of essays by full-time classroom teachers who describe their efforts to implement the vision of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards documents and to empower their students in mathematics. Chapter 1, "Students' Conceptions of Mathematics and the Challenge of the Standards" (Dorothy Buerk),…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, Concept Formation, Content Area Writing
