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Michaels, Greta – Minnesota Council for the Social Studies Newsletter, 1983
Addressing the concern that writing assignments are used only for recording or relating information, a program called "Writing in Content Areas" has been developed in Minnesota to help students and teachers use writing as a tool for learning. Students are encouraged to use expressive writing for working out ideas, relationships, understandings,…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement

Friedman, Sheila – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers a variety of practical writing ideas that can help first-grade teachers encourage writing across the curriculum. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Content Area Writing, Grade 1, Integrated Activities
Hayes, Mary F., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Prepared by classroom teachers, the papers in this collection combine practical knowledge with recent findings from writing research. Among the topics discussed in the 25 papers are (1) student teacher conferences, (2) using poetry to develop writing fluency, (3) writing as a learning process, (4) oral and written discourse, (5) creative dramatics…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Goetz, Ernest T.; And Others – 1983
Prompted by the lack of research on learning in large college classes in terms of the cognitive processes and strategies students use, an experimental, preliminary study implemented generative activities in an undergraduate educational psychology class of approximately 70 students. The activities involved such things as stopping in the middle of a…
Descriptors: Class Size, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing
Howard, James – 1983
Stressing that learning to write is learning to think, a series of workshops showed teachers in the content area how to use writing in their classrooms. Following a brief introduction to the program, workshop participants developed eight guidelines for creating effective writing assignments: (1) make all assignments worthwhile, (2) make them…
Descriptors: Assignments, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
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
Durdella, Nathan Richard – 2001
Literacy strategies useful in the adult education classroom were presented at a faculty professional development workshop. Literacy was described as a two-part process that included receptive (involving listening and reading) and expressive (involving speaking and writing). Content area was described as the focus of adult education literacy with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Content Area Reading