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Moni, Roger W.; Moni, Karen B.; Poronnik, Philip – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2007
The teaching of highly valued scientific writing skills in the first year of university is challenging. This report describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel written assignment, "The Personal Response" and accompanying Peer Review, in the course, Human Biology (BIOL1015) at The University of Queensland. These assignments were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Writing, Writing Skills, Biology
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May, Tom – Writing on the Edge, 1995
Contains an imaginary writing assignment and an imaginary student's response to it that critiques it and the conception of writing it appears to be predicated upon. (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expressive Language, Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Cobine, Gary R. – 1996
This digest discusses expressive writing and the expressive mode, which is seen as a recurring stage in a writer's process of writing. The digest suggests that by structuring expressive writing activities and correlating them with particular stages of the writing process, a teacher can draw the natural linguistic activity out of a student. The…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Free Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
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Bizzell, Pat; Herzberg, Bruce – Rhetoric Review, 1985
Reviews eight reading-across-the-curriculum textbooks, showing that four treat academic discourse only in its generic form, while four go beyond that level to look at the audience, purpose, and genre specific to particular disciplines. (RBW)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing