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Warren, Thomas L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982
Describes the writing of the formal technical report as a project for students in technical writing courses. Includes grading criteria for such a report. (HTH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing, Two Year Colleges

Davis, Kevin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Discusses specific problems (arising in the context of a writing center visit) that writing assignments have caused students. Considers problems in teachers communicating objectives with students, unspecific teacher comments on students' papers, lack of examples for the writing assignment, overemphasis on grammatical correctness, unspecified…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Two Year Colleges

King, Mary – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Explains a technique for teaching proofreading to basic writing students that calls forth their inner competence with language and causes them to attend to what is actually written in order to find and correct manuscript errors. (EL)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Language Usage, Revision (Written Composition)