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Perez, Tony; Gregory, Kristen H.; Baker, Peter B. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
We pilot tested an identity-based relevance-writing intervention designed to support developmental community college students' (N = 54) educational commitment, value, and persistence. The intervention was embedded within regular journal assignments in two study skills courses with a third section serving as a comparison group. The intervention…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Intervention
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Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose