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Peer reviewedBlythe, Hal; Sweet, Charlie – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Suggests an exercise to be used in a creative writing class to help students learn the various techniques available for characterization. (TJ)
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedArcher, Stanley – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Suggests that using Francis Christensen's method of analyzing paragraphs can help students improve their own paragraph development. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedProffitt, Edward – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Summarizes a method for teaching composition that allows for practice in straight composition, the opportunity for self-expression, and the getting of feedback by asking students to write a paragraph in response to a specific question about the text for the week and a second paragraph of reaction to the text. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedFeldmeier, Linda – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Explains an exercise in which logical relationships are isolated in order to help students discover how to choose their material for paragraphs. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Engberg, Norma J. – Freshman English News, 1974
Describes a method for teaching students in college composition courses how to construct a paragraph. (RB)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedSullivan, Jerry L. – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Presents and discusses a descriptive paragraph useful for teaching composition students how rhetorical fragments work in writing and why sentence fragments do not. (HTH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grammar, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedClarke, John H. – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Proposes a formula for helping students learn to write paragraphs by requiring highly disciplined and limited material and sentences until students have acquired skills that permit more variety. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Paragraph Composition, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBrostoff, Anita – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Suggests that teaching students to achieve coherence involves teaching them what it means to plan and to move up and down a hierarchy of abstraction as well as teaching them to build cohesive links into their writing. Describes a program for teaching coherence. (RL)
Descriptors: Coherence, College English, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Sundahl, Dan – Technical Writing Teacher, 1979
Argues that generative rhetoric can lead technical writing students to produce more effective and better developed business reports. (TJ)
Descriptors: Business Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedJones, William – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Illustrates how a controlled writing exercise for students of English as a second language can be used to help native speakers of English learn paragraph development. (TJ)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Sallyanne H. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: College. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: When I first began as a college composition instructor, I gave a standard explanation that definition was necessary if students wished to argue logically or to explain an unfamiliar subject. I showed examples of definitions, discussed ones in the text, and then sent…
Descriptors: College English, Definitions, Essays, Higher Education
Download full textGray, James; Benson, Robert – 1982
The two essays in this booklet reflect the spirit and ideas of Francis Christensen, specifically his exhortations to composition teachers, illustrated by his own practice, to approach the teaching of writing inductively, to look always to the writing of professionals for models, and to behave as scholars. The first essay, on sentence modelling,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Higher Education, Induction, Models
Peer reviewedEden, Rick; Mitchell, Ruth – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Supports a reader oriented theory of paragraph writing. Discusses the readers' expectations of paragraphs and supporting research, demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of the most popular current model of paragraph structure, demonstrates the power of rhetorical paragraph writing, and details the pedagogical implications of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Paragraph Composition, Reading Writing Relationship
Peer reviewedWhitaker, Elaine E. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Presents step-by-step instructions to help developmental writing students write a cohesive essay by combining individually written paragraphs. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedKirszner, Laurie G. – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Illustrates a method of helping students learn to write paragraphs and to organize their writing using a group writing technique. (TJ)
Descriptors: Group Activities, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Secondary Education
