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Pytlik, Betty P. – 1987
Sequenced writing assignments--a series of related writing tasks--offer students frequent opportunities to write and to acquire writing skills through redundancy, progressively more complicated cognitive and rhetorical demands, and a diversity of learning activities. The most frequently identified goal of sequencing is to move students beyond…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Organization, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Siegel, Gail; And Others – 1980
This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project, each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. It describes four sequences for teaching writing developed by four teachers at four different levels--kindergarten through grade three, intermediate grades, grades…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Remedial Instruction, Sequential Approach
Saxton, Ruth O. – 1987
The implicit assumption behind personal writing assignments given at the beginning of a writing course is that personal essays eliminate the writing apprehension of having nothing to say. However, college freshmen find it very difficult to write about themselves and their own opinions because this writing involves abstract mental processes and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College English, Course Content, Expository Writing