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"It's the Same Thing, Only Different": An Exercise in Characterization.
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Blythe, 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
Christensen's Rhetoric of the Paragraph Revisited.
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Archer, 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
Writing for Reading.
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Proffitt, 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
Teaching Paragraph Coherence.
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Feldmeier, 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)
To Be--Or Not.
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Sullivan, 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
Generating Paragraphs in a Four-Part Formula.
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Clarke, 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
A Little Pen and Pencil Magic: Adapting an English-as-a-Second-Language Technique for Native Speakers of English.
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Jones, 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
Piecing Together Bertrand Russell's "What I Have Lived For": An Exercise for Students Studying the Five-Paragraph Theme.
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Walls, Doyle W. – Exercise Exchange, 1983
This exercise is intended to teach the sense of sentences and their place in the larger fabric of paragraphs as they are woven into organized papers. Based on the five-paragraph theme (introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion), the exercise divides "What I Haved Lived For," the prologue to "The Autobiography of Bertrand…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Paragraph Composition
A Way To Define.
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Fitzgerald, 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
From Paragraph to Paper: An Assignment for the Developmental Student.
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Whitaker, 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
Supporting Topic Sentences: An Exercise for Composition Courses.
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Kirszner, 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
Make Your Students See Red: A Lesson on the Topic Sentence.
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Fulkerson, Tahita – Exercise Exchange, 1984
Describes a method for helping students see the importance of a topic sentence to achieve unity in written paragraphs. Students note all red items in the classroom. Parallels are then drawn between the way concentrating on red limits notice of other details and the way topic sentences limit and focus the details in a paragraph. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Coherence, Higher Education, Motivation Techniques
Awareness of Audiences' Needs: A Charade.
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Spector, Ann D. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: LEVEL: High school and college. AUTHOR'S COMMENT: I used this mini-unit to initiate the class in working effectively as a peer group. Moreover, the task I assigned demands that students develop an awareness of their audience's needs by providing an immediate and concrete response. THE APPROACH: (1)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Descriptive Writing, High Schools
An Active Bulletin Board Approach.
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Hunter, Janis P. – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Explains how teachers can involve junior high school students in active language arts bulletin board production. (HOD)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Bulletin Boards, Creative Activities, Dictionaries