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Carrie A. Rodesiler – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Instructors of first-year composition (FYC) face the challenge of crafting rhetorically diverse opportunities for student writers within a classroom setting. As a result, many have embraced service-learning or community-engaged pedagogy. Oral history projects may be incorporated into curricula by faculty who embrace this approach to teaching, but…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing (Composition), Oral History, Student Projects
Hurley, John – 1989
A study was conducted in the Rancho Santiago Community College District to track the academic performance of 238 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Asian students and 301 ESL Hispanic students for three semesters (fall 1987 through spring 1988). The students had entered English 101 classes by way of ESL 110, the highest level composition class for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Community Colleges, English (Second Language)
Hopper, Peggy F.; And Others – 1997
Research has found evidence for the validity of remedial and developmental English courses in preparing students to pass freshman-level English courses. To determine whether similar validity could be demonstrated for remedial and developmental English courses at Tennessee's Walters State Community College, the percentage of former remedial and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs
Price, A. Rae; And Others – 1992
In summer 1990, the English Department of the Metropolitan Community College District (MCCD) in Missouri conducted a self-study to determine whether the English program's subject matter, academic standards, and methods of instruction were consistent with objectives. An Evaluation Committee, consisting of three English instructors representing each…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College English, Community Colleges, English Curriculum
Williamson, Barbara L. – 1993
A study was conducted at Florida's Brevard Community College (BCC) to determine the effectiveness of using artificial intelligence software to teach Freshman Composition. At BCC, Freshman Composition is taught in the computer lab, with student using WordPerfect to type their essays and Writer's Helper to flag various writing deficiencies. The…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Freshman Composition