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Thorne, Sheila – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1993
Argues that prewriting is the most important skill to emphasize and practice extensively in basic writing classes. Describes basic writers as almost universally neglecting prewriting activities. Suggests some guidelines for teaching prewriting effectively. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Prewriting
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Gay, Pamela – Journal of Basic Writing, 1993
Considers Mina Shaughnessy's metaphor likening the experience of basic writers to that of "uncultured natives" under European colonization. Advocates decolonizing the classroom by devising a pedagogy of voice in a dialogized space that is continually reconstructed from different locations and identities. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Valeri-Gold, Maria – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1990
Suggests a nine-step summary writing strategy for use with secondary and college developmental readers and writers. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Remedial Reading, Secondary Education
Raign, Kathryn Rosser – 1992
Many basic writers, who are virtually unable to create a coherent paragraph, are nonetheless capable of presenting orally well-constructed narratives of depth and feeling. Thus, teachers must try to get students to harness the strength of their oral abilities to improve their writing skills, and Kenneth Burke's pentad may provide a key. Burke's…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, Drama, Higher Education
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Knodt, Ellen Andrews – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Argues that basic writing students need incremental assignment sequences to experience success in writing and to develop their abilities to write about abstract concepts. Describes a four-part sequence of writing assignments moving from observing to narrowing to generalizing to theorizing. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Remedial Programs, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges
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Moberg, Goran "George" – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990
Asserts that the renewed interest in rhetoric, evident throughout the professional discourse of English studies, is having a salutary effect on the theory and practice of the teaching of composition and basic writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Bibliographies, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory
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Valeri-Gold, Maria T. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Discusses providing developmental learners with the opportunity to hear and respond to vignettes (short, descriptive literary sketches such as those in "The House on Mango Street"). Notes that the activity allowed students to experiment with another writing style and to use figurative language in a creative way. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Creative Writing, Higher Education
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Deming, Mary P.; Valeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1992
Discusses the use of computers in teaching basic writing to college students. Offers computer exercises and activities which foster a whole-language curriculum. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computers, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
McAlexander, Patricia J.; And Others – 1992
This book briefs teachers on how to analyze individual students' spelling errors and coach them on strategies to overcome them. Although the book deals with spelling weaknesses of both learning disabled and basic writers, its message to practitioners can also provide help for any student who has spelling weaknesses. The book is organized in two…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
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Middendorf, Marilyn – Journal of Basic Writing, 1992
Describes a method by which teachers can introduce students to meaning and text through application of Mikhail Bakhtin's discourse theories. Explains that students are encouraged to reject common understandings of good writing. Identifies "daffy" definition exercises, newspaper editorial comparisons, and other activities that help…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Definitions, Discourse Analysis, Editorials
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Thorpe, Dean – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes the various "affective filters" that inhibit basic writers from learning to write. Suggests principles for avoiding such inhibitions among basic writers. Claims that such principles are an effective way of fostering writing development among basic writers. (HB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, High Schools
Horner, Bruce; Lu, Min-Zhan – 1999
Intended for teachers of basic writing, this book contains a collection of new and updated essays addressing issues surrounding underprepared writers. It maps errors and expectations for basic writing and develops teaching approaches that will be effective in a social and political world. The book considers concepts such as the possibility of…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, Feminism, Higher Education
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Abt-Perkins, Dawn – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1992
Discusses the ways in which a high school basic writing teacher abandoned the advice about her students offered by her colleagues and chose instead to develop a student-centered writing workshop. Demonstrates the potential a workshop model has for creating a community of authors in a high school basic writing class. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, High Schools, Remedial Programs
Salvo, Michael J.; Lane, Daniel – 1995
A collaborative teaching model that replaces the hierarchical graduate teaching assistant (TA)/tutor structure can be used to train basic writing TAs with a pedagogy that stresses reflection and dialogue. Usually, new graduate students tutor for a semester in Basic Writing classrooms and then later move on to teach their own classes; in this case,…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperation, Higher Education
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Beaugrande, Robert de; Olson, Mar Jean – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Advocates a basic writing approach that assesses potential language competence as it develops both in speech and writing, and redefines the notion of "error." Presents a pilot project in which the use of speech is found to assist basic writers in producing writing that is improved in its length, fluency, involvement, concrete detail, and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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