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DeNight, Shawn – 1992
Content area teachers interested in using writing to learn activities need to be well informed about the learning promoted by certain writing tasks before assigning them. Writing assignments should not be thoughtlessly and arbitrarily assigned with the expectation that learning, somewhat miraculously or mysteriously, will occur. Although writing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Writing Relationship

Hoover, Linda A. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1994
Study analyzed the writing assignments of two secondary preservice teachers involved in a university teacher education practicum designed to promote reflective thinking. Found that written assignments were more useful in making participants' cognitive processes explicit than in their actively constructing knowledge about teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Practicums