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Bickmore, Lisa; Christiansen, Ron – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Multimodal writing is considered as a "new" way of composing, or, somewhat cynically, as a strategy for adding relevance or interest to a required composition course. Jody Shipka's "A Multimodal Task-Based Framework for Composing" suggests that "students' uptakes of a much wider, richer repertoire of semiotic resources,…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Writing Assignments, Student Projects
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Daemmrich, Ingrid G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
Composition teachers have generally embraced collaborative learning in the years since Kenneth Bruffee published his first article promoting its advantages in "College English" in 1972. But assigning collaboratively written papers in an introductory college writing course is still rare. This study assesses the benefits and drawbacks of assigning a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, College English, Collaborative Writing, Essays
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Jolly, Peggy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Discusses the problems that teachers face in dealing with developmental writers, including (1) why they are academically disadvantaged, (2) where to begin instruction, (3) how to determine assignments, and (4) how to evaluate their progress. (JD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Educationally Disadvantaged, Instructional Development, Student Evaluation
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Davis, Dan – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2002
Explores the possibilities of the paperless classroom achieved through e-mail strategies and the use of Blackboard, an e-learning software platform. Claims that the system can be an efficient method for storing and evaluating papers and communicating with students. Concludes that the system allows the author to create a permanent electronic paper…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
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Laurenty, Yvonne G. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Details a first-year college composition course that blends journalism instruction with first-year composition. Describes how students learn about news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and complete a profile writing project which encourages a level of discourse that bears closer kinship to everyday workplace writing.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Feature Stories, Freshman Composition, Journalism Education
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Kasper, Loretta F. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2002
Notes that to be considered literate in the age of information demands functional, academic, critical, and technological skills. Contends that technology must become an integral part of English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Describes how to use the Internet as part of a sustained content-based pedagogy to develop ESL students' literacy…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Hypermedia