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Lim, Nicolas – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) methods were used to capture the knowledge and skills, represented by action and decision steps, of expert English teachers when they recall and describe how they provide expository writing instruction at the eleventh-grade level. Three semi-structured CTA interviews were conducted to elicit and capture the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Expository Writing, Secondary School Students, Efficiency
Woodman, Leonora – 1976
This paper outlines a methodology for teaching writing which is based on the following assumptions: that the controlling idea is the most important feature of the reflective essay; that the idea sentence embodying the controlling idea has a semantic and rhetorical anatomy that is present in oral patterns; and that teachers can instruct students in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Teaching, Expository Writing, Secondary Education
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Deane, Paul; Odendahl, Nora; Quinlan, Thomas; Fowles, Mary; Welsh, Cyndi; Bivens-Tatum, Jennifer – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This paper undertakes a review of the literature on writing cognition, writing instruction, and writing assessment with the goal of developing a framework and competency model for a new approach to writing assessment. The model developed is part of the Cognitively Based Assessments of, for, and as Learning (CBAL) initiative, an ongoing research…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Schemata (Cognition), Writing Evaluation
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Perron, John D. – 1977
This paper suggests that a change in mode of expression --narrative, descriptive, or expository--can influence the syntactic complexity of children's writing. The implications of the research studies reviewed here may offer direction for education in general. Instructional strategies which make use of variation in writing mode to encourage gains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Writing, Difficulty Level
Davis, Richard – Improving College and University Teaching, 1981
The use of the dialogue for the exposition of ideas and as a possible solution to the problem of student essays is advocated. When writing a dialogue, a student will evaluate, analyze, compare, and discuss. Some sample dialogues are provided. (MLW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College English, College Students, Creative Teaching
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Guzel-Ozmen, Ruya – Exceptional Children, 2006
This study investigated the effectiveness of Modified Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing (CSIW) with mildly mentally retarded students' skills in writing problem/solution texts. Participants were from two self-contained and multiage classrooms in Turkey. Instruction had a positive impact on the amount of time students spent planning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Mental Retardation, Mixed Age Grouping, Writing Strategies
Griffith, Marlene – 1982
Intended for writing teachers, from middle-elementary level through college, this booklet describes a teaching method that lets students write their own way into ideas, merging personal experience with intellectual thought in expository writing. The booklet first describes in greater detail the concept of writing to think as focused free…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Ports, Kim; Mills, Carol J. – 1988
This curriculum guide is designed to aid in the planning and execution of a writing course for verbally gifted elementary school students. The course is designed for students ranging in age from 8-11 years whose verbal reasoning skills are at least 3 years above grade level. The course instructs students in the fundamentals of communication…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Curriculum Design, Descriptive Writing
Lawrence, Mary S. – 1972
This text is designed for students of English as a second language for intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency. The text is based on an approach to writing which is semantic and cognitive. Providing for active transfer of each student's knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, it bridges the gap between controlled writing and free writing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Expository Writing, Grammar
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Wess, Robert C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Proposes that teachers use their own writing as a teaching tool. Discusses both the left-brain logical, rational approach and the right-brain intuitive approach to invention and states that in composing their own methods and materials, instructors can stress both patterns of creativity by illustrating how each complements the other. (EL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity, Expository Writing
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Flood, James – Reading Teacher, 1986
Argues that children need to be taught how to extract, synthesize, organize, and integrate important information from texts into their own knowledge structures and describes some techniques that can be used to activate prior knowledge. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Daly, William T. – 1995
In the light of significant changes in contemporary society that demand high level thinking skills of professional workers, this monograph explores the nature of independent thinking and principles of teaching independent thinking, particularly to college freshmen. A section on independent thinking outlines abstract, creative, and systematic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen
Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl – School Administrator, 1985
This article suggests several proven strategies to help students move beyond the knowledge-telling stage of writing to the knowledge-transforming approach, which involves not only putting one's knowledge into words but the reflection upon, revision, and improvement of that knowledge. Eleven references are listed. (DCS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Expository Writing
Alley, Alvin Douglas – 1967
In this study, an analysis of the various theories of creativity was made to formulate guiding principles for teaching "creative rhetoric" in the secondary schools. The following basic assumptions were made: (1) Rhetoric is concerned with man's problems. (2) Rhetoric is a synthesis of the imaginative and rational processes. (3) Acts of rhetoric…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
To determine students' metacognitive knowledge of the expository writing process, a study analyzed fifth and sixth graders' declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge by means of group questionnaires and individual interviews at all stages of their participation in one of three year-long writing programs. The programs emphasized social…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
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