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Lauren Esposito – English Journal, 2016
Whether novice or experienced, writers must come to terms with the daunting task of filling up a blank page, or screen, in an effort to produce writing. Student writers are no different. They enter teachers' classes having confronted similar difficulties with discovering what it is they want to say. In seeking to help students, they devote…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Activities, Prewriting, Writing Instruction
Anderson, Kirsteen – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
This article challenges the predominance of modularization across the UK university system, arguing that the fragmentation of the learning experience which results from this model undermines the possibility of a disciplinary understanding. It proposes instead a practice of imaginative writing which, by engaging students' experience, interest and…
Descriptors: French Literature, Writing Assignments, World Literature, Learning Experience
Notes Plus, 1983
Teaching suggestions and questions on which to build a class discussion are presented regarding concrete poetry. An example of a poem about a bird's feather in which the words are arranged in the shape of a feather is included and is intended as a student handout. In addition to suggestions for student assignments, five sources of concrete poetry…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creativity, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Pictorial Stimuli

Sanzenbacher, Richard – Exercise Exchange, 2000
Describes two assignments that help students realize the dialectic between parts (how one part affects the understanding of all other parts) by having students create their own photographs and physical structures, combine the parts in various way, and consider (in their written papers) the difference it makes. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, English Instruction, Higher Education

Strangman, Nicole – Reading Online, 2002
Interviews Irene Huschak, a computer teacher at Altoona Area High School in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Explains "A Digital Journey to Altoona's Past," a project which brings the history of Blair County, Pennsylvania alive for young readers by making them the main characters of historically accurate stories about the area's past. Discusses the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Creativity, Interviews, Local History