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Wess, Robert C. – 1981
This paper presents a narrative account of how the process of discovery pertained to a college instructor's experience in teaching writing, offering it as a potential methodology for other teachers to consider in their own and their students' writing. The first two parts of the paper illustrate the process of primary and secondary invention in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Discovery Processes, Higher Education
Wess, Robert C. – 1982
A teacher-written essay comparing writing to farming served as a process model for analogical student themes. This assignment, given to 39 students in 2 classes of a first course in freshman composition, produced complete analogical essays in all but 4 cases. The essays, questionnaire responses, and retrospective essays on the writing of the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Discovery Processes, Expository Writing, Higher Education
