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Peer reviewedHallden, Ola – Learning and Instruction, 1998
Aspects of personalization in historical descriptions and explanations are explored, considering conceptualizations of great leaders, the personification of institutions, and the tendency of students to transform structural explanations into personalization. It is argued that personalization is central to a common-sense concept of history. (SLD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays, Higher Education
Roundy, Nancy – Technical Writing Teacher, 1982
Describes a pedagogical approach to teaching composition, based on research indicating that inexperienced writers have undeveloped composing processes. Presents a sample lesson for describing an item that gives technical writing students knowledge of how they write and introduces them to strategies for mastering the composing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education, Skill Development
Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – 1980
Essays in which 40 freshman composition students described unusual or extraordinary persons were analyzed for the charcteristic choices that males and females made and for the typical ways men and women were described. The analysis yielded seven findings with social implications. Both males and females tended to choose males as objects for…
Descriptors: Characterization, College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
Crabbe, John K., Ed.; Crabbe, Katharyn F., Ed. – 1979
Reflecting the view that a single formula for revolutionizing the teaching of writing is unavailable, this publication of the New York State English Council presents a series of articles dealing with various topics in the teaching of composition in high school and college settings. Subjects discussed include the following: the use of fables in the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Curriculum, Essays
King, Robert – 1980
An introductory two-semester education course for preservice elementary school teachers addresses in the first semester the topics of childhood, and how the family and society relate to teaching. In the second semester topics include children in the classroom, teaching philosophies, and professional issues. Student writing is used as a feedback…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Diaries, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Download full textWall, Susan V. – 1980
Students in college basic writing courses need to consider their own written language and to compare it with other students' work before they can develop a sense of the symbolic relationship between language and experience. Because of a lack of previous writing experience, basic writers have no sense that the "facts" about which they…
Descriptors: Assignments, College English, Concept Formation, Decision Making
