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McQueen, David – 1983
Imaging, or disciplined daydreaming, can be used in the composition class to expose students to their innate creativity, lessen writing anxiety, refresh memories before writing of personal experiences, and make impersonal subjects, such as historical events, vital and personal. Teachers can construct a classroom imaging session (which takes about…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Heuristics
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
Lally, Tim D. P.; And Others – 1983
Once its source has been identified using the multidimensional model developed by D. W. Stacks, R. W. Boozer, and T. D. P. Lally, writing apprehension, especially among business writing students, can be treated in the classroom with specific pedagogical techniques. Emphasizing the writing process rather than the product--stressing peer and teacher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Prewriting, Sentence Combining
Lang, Frederick K. – 1985
The film, "Telling an Old Story" (part of the series "Writers Writing" that was coproduced by WNET and Learning Designs and televised by WNET in 1985), was integrated into college developmental writing classes and proved to be an effective strategy for the improvement of students' writing skills. The film was presented with the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Creative Teaching
