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Rowinsky-Geurts, Mercedes – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
The purpose of the conference presentation upon which this paper is inspired was to present an innovative approach to motivate students to write in a second language during a first-year Spanish class. Usually, students comply with writing exercises that convey basic thoughts, due to constrained vocabulary and limited knowledge of grammatical…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Exercises
Ingham, Zita – 1993
Assumptions that writers of books about creative writing make about their audiences, as well as assumptions about the purposes, practice, and value of writing, differ noticeably from the assumptions made by people who teach and write about composition. In substance and form, the range of creative writing books includes autobiography, interviews,…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Writing, Creativity, Higher Education
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Dollieslager, Rick – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Presents three exercises that teach good proofreading and editing skills as well as tap students' creativity on the word processor. (HTH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creativity, High Schools, Higher Education