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Peer reviewedLarsen, Richard B. – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Proposes as a follow-up to an article on controlled composition for basic writers a necessary bridge between strict copying and independent composing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedMcKoski, Martin M.; Hahn, Lynne C. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1987
Describes a basic writing program which provides an enabling environment to give students opportunities and a plan for composing sentences and texts and interacting with readers, through such techniques as collaborative learning, writing as process, and sentence combining. Offers profiles of typical basic writers including examples of their work.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods
Download full textCondravy, Joan; McIlvaine, Robert – 1985
The Basics Skills English 100 course at Slippery Rock University, having changed from a traditional approach to an approach that reflects knowledge gained through research about the needs of basic writers, shows the progress basic writers can make in a summer program. Thirty students met six times a week for five weeks in one-and-a-half hour…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
North Carolina State Competency Testing Commission, Raleigh. – 1983
Intended to aid any teacher at any level to assist students who are having major difficulties with writing experiences, this handbook presents basic writing skills that students should be able to perform upon graduation from high school. The handbook begins with a definition of writing and a word about the North Carolina competency testing…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competencies, Remedial Instruction
Rutledge, George E. – 1983
Writing is an important tool in teaching skills to adult basic education (ABE) students. To be a successful teacher of writing, teachers must be successful writers. They must be aware of the writing process and willing to use it daily in their own lives in order to convey its importance and its usefulness to their students. One method of teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Conferences
Lang, Frederick K. – 1984
James Joyce's use of interior monologue (the interior self of the character is given directly, as though the reader were overhearing an articulation of the stream of thought and feeling flowing through the character's mind) can help basic writers in developmental classes. Students can be given excerpts from Joyce and asked to turn the sentence…
Descriptors: Authors, Basic Skills, Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education
Madden, Thomas R. – 1985
Intended to give basic students simultaneous practice in reading and writing with an emphasis on accuracy, conciseness, and precision, the "finding the beef" method centers itself on summaries of news events. The first step of the method is to supply students with the appropriate data blocks based on news events, preferably those…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, English Instruction, Higher Education, Journalism
Mueller, Lyn Zalusky; And Others – 1984
Intended to provide South Carolina educators with a tool for curriculum and instructional development that complements the assessment of the state writing objectives, this guide focuses on that part of the curriculum reflected in the state basic writing skills objectives. The various sections in the first part of the guide: (1) discuss the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Bilson, Barbara, Ed. – Inside English, 1983
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 9 contain the following feature…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Woodruff, Barbara Bilson, Ed.; And Others – Inside English, 1991
With each issue focusing on different themes, volume 18 of "Inside English" looks at he revitalizing literature, teaching as a subversive activity, writing at all levels, and the English classroom of the 1990's. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC) and legislative concerns, the following…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bilson, Barbara, Ed. – Inside English, 1982
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 8 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Ryan, Kevin J., Ed. – Inside English, 1984
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 of volume 11 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Woodruff, Barbara Bilson, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1989
With each issue focusing on different themes, volume 16 of "Inside English" looks at writing programs and critical thinking, developmental writing and the plight of part-time faculty, teaching literature and study abroad programs, and English as a Second Language (ESL) and English programs. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, College English, College Faculty
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1986
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 of volume 13 include the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1985
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 of volume 12 include the following…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
