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Steele, Poppy – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this report is to encourage the reader to explore wikis for use in classroom instruction and assignments. The information in this report was gleaned from interviews with various members of higher education as well as recent research by educators. The main problems found in the research with new technologies like wikis in classrooms…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Technology

Anderson, Vivienne; Fitts, Karen – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1989
Assists students in recognizing rhetorical situations and in participating actively by instituting semester-long anonymous correspondences between unacquainted students in separate sections of freshman composition. Notes that students achieved greater sensitivity to rhetorical situations and an awakening of resistance. (MG)
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Letters (Correspondence)

Sherer, John – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Demonstrates how grading students journal can be made easier by making the journals goal-oriented, such as using them as the basis for exams. Suggests that journal assignments can involve more complex learning tasks such as analyzing, interpreting, and applying course materials in specific ways. (PA)
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Student Journals

Deimling, Paula – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1992
Describes a three-part assignment in which each student writes a complaint letter and an adjustment letter responding to another student's complaint letter. Discusses how the third part of the assignment--journal entries--allows students to formulate their own criteria for excellent letters based upon their reactions to the letters they receive.…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Letters (Correspondence)
Tighe, Mary Ann – 2002
The second semester of Freshman Composition at Troy State University focuses on writing about literature and writing a traditional research paper not necessarily based on literary research. One spring, the required reading was Shirley Ann Grau's novel, "The Keeper of the House." This novel, set in an unidentified Southern state, traces the history…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Literary Genres

Hiemstra, Kathleen M. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2002
Reviews the benefits of library work (and some cautions) before describing four assignments that exploit library resources: a business report assignment; a professional journal assignment; a style manual format assignment; and an international business communication assignment. (SG)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Curriculum Enrichment, Higher Education, International Communication

Stout, David E.; And Others – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1990
Reports a successful application of writing across the curriculum theory and practice at the introductory accounting level. Discusses the advantages of informal and formal writing assignments. Presents a number of suggestions designed to facilitate the use of writing across the curriculum techniques and to help ensure their successful application.…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Communication, Business Education, Higher Education

Burnham, Christopher C. – College Composition and Communication, 1992
Presents two journal exercises teachers can use to help their students develop and apply their cognitive skills. Asserts that the exercises help students to integrate what many consider to be dichotomous and frequently contradictory activities--feeling and thinking. Cites G. Lakoff and M. Johnson's "Metaphors We Live By" for the theoretical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Journal Writing, Metaphors, Teaching Methods

Arnold, Jane – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Describes how a weekly focused journal writing assessment (in which students note any use of language they find interesting, puzzling, amusing, or annoying as well as their response to it) enhances composition students' awareness of how language is used and where. Offers several different advantages of such journal writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Language Usage
Geddes, LaDonna McMurray – 1992
Within the education environment, writing journals are being used across the curriculum and for a variety of purposes--they are often recognized as a means for prompting students to apply the perspective of a particular discipline to their own lives or to facilitate their gaining perspective on personal transitions. Successful use of journals in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Learning Activities
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

Harmon, Gary P. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1990
Describes a personal finance course which uses special assignments designed to improve oral and written communication skills. Discusses assignments such as journal writing, letter writing, discussions with guest speakers, researching major household purchases, and managing a personal investment portfolio. (RS)
Descriptors: Business Education, Communication Skills, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
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
Allen, Sheilah – 1989
For the second-, third-, and fourth-year education students (all of them English majors) enrolled in a course about the psycholinguistic basis of the writing process, each 3-hour class involved writing about writing, free writing, discussing readings on writing, trying out writing activities, and reflecting on writing about learning. The course…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education