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Download full textStrenski, Ellen, Ed. – 1986
Intended for teaching assistants and non-writing specialists to whom students come for help in preparing assigned writing papers, this guide suggests questions and comments to ask such students to help them clarify what is happening, or not happening, in their writing, and in the thinking which this writing reveals. The guide roughly parallels…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Process Approach (Writing)
Daiker, Donald A., Ed.; And Others – 1985
The 23 original essays on sentence combining in this volume range in focus from classroom methodology and effectiveness, through theoretical issues and syntactic constructions, to current issues in the field. The essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "The Role of the Elaborated Dominant Nominal in the Measurement of Conceptual and…
Descriptors: Coherence, Epistemology, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Cooperative Learning and Process Writing Experiences to Improve the Writing of Fifth Grade Students.
Donato, Marjorie – 1990
A course of study was researched, designed, and implemented to improve the writing of fifth-grade students. Objectives of the program were to develop more positive feelings about writing while increasing the quantity, quality, and variety of writing. Cooperative learning and process writing was discussed with the participants, their parents, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5
Shook, Ronald – 1982
The best way to teach writing is to make it the way to learn something else. Instructors need to look at written communication as it is used in real life. When students take pains with their writing, it is because what they have to say is important to them. The students' need to communicate a particular meaning for a particular purpose guides them…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Language Processing
Bull, Geoff; Gollasch, Fred, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on talk as the vehicle through which the reading and writing processes can become more interactive and can more closely approach the processes of learning, the lessons presented in this booklet provide examples of how teachers can construct learning strategies to help children "talk their way into meaning" against a framework of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Learning Processes
Liebman-Kleine, JoAnne – 1986
Contrastive rhetoric theory, an extension of contrastive grammar, holds that the rhetorical predispositions of a student's native language will interfere with attempts to learn the rhetoric of a second language; and that because speakers of different languages think differently, they organize paragraphs differently, a situation which influences…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Pearce, R. Charles – 1988
Writing techniques espoused by Peter Elbow, applied to the teaching of writing in advertising copywriting classes can help students develop into better writers, generating better copy ideas. The shift of focus from writing a finished piece the first time to concentrating on the process of writing allows for a freer flow of ideas and creativity.…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Instruction, Group Discussion, Higher Education
Handbook for Planning an Effective Writing Program: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve. 1986 Edition.
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1986
Intended to provide the schools of California with a standard for assessing their existing writing programs and a tool for designing new programs, this handbook addresses both the content and the teaching methodology of a writing program. Sections of the handbook provide (1) background information on the teaching of writing; (2) a discussion of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Lawrence, Robert A. – 1983
By emphasizing the similarities between writing and speaking, writing instructors can help students generate coherent, natural sounding prose. Instructors can point out the connections between speaking and writing by (1) reading good student writing aloud, (2) having students read their work aloud in class, (3) encouraging students to develop…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmental Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
Marik, Ray – 1982
This book recounts the struggles and successes of one Seattle School District secondary school composition teacher guiding special education students through the writing process. The nine students had an IQ range of 59 to 109 and had an age range of 14 to 17 years. Of the students assigned to this class: one was neurologically impaired; one was…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Mainstreaming
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
The 1988 Writing Objectives Assessment is the fifth such assessment by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in grades 4, 8, and 12, since the program began in 1969. The objectives reflect a consensus of opinion regarding the process of writing: that it is used for a variety of purposes and audiences, and that the form and process…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Objectives
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Kurilich, Frances, Ed. – Inside English, 1980
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition; and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues in volume 6 include the following feature…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, English Instruction
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Kurilich, Frances, Ed. – Inside English, 1981
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues in volume 7 contain the following feature…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, English Curriculum
Fagan, Edward R. – 1982
Reading in the writing classroom can be defined as a cluster of arbitrary categories, each with its own effect on the reading/writing process. Given this definition, it can be said that (1) perceptions significantly affect both reading and writing, (2) attitudes are factors in reading and writing, (3) rhetorical triangles are useful in teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Perception, Reading Achievement
Walvoord, Barbara Fassler; Singer, Daniel – 1984
To determine whether a teacher's guidance of the writing process in the classroom can produce measurable improvement in students' writing and learning over the course of a semester, an instructor of a college business management course taught three sections of the same course, using the same texts and making the same assignments (six written case…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Comparative Analysis, Content Area Writing
