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Dirrigl, Frank J., Jr.; Noe, Mark – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
Teaching scientific writing in biology classes is challenging for both students and instructors. This article offers and reviews several useful "toolkit" items that improve student writing. These include sentence and paper-length templates, funnelling and compartmentalisation, and preparing compendiums of corrections. In addition,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Technical Writing, Biology
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Avila, Hernán A. – HOW, 2016
This article introduces a pedagogical intervention that includes a set of creative activities designed to improve the oral and written production of students in the English classroom, especially those who have shown a lack of interest or attention. It was observed that participants initially seemed careless about studying the language. Eventually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jackson, Rex – 1985
A study assessed the effects of the Mason program (a supplementary language arts program in which expository writing is introduced) on writing skills, such as writing mechanics, expression, and related thinking skills. These skills were measured by standardized tests and by actual writing performance. Subjects, approximately 400 second grade…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Morenberg, Max – 1990
Though popular in the late 70s and early 80s, the instructional technique of sentence combining attracts little support today, even though practice has proven that teaching the processes of combining and expanding sentences can enhance syntactic maturity. A student writer who is made aware of the expectations of form will be prompted to generate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sentence Combining, Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Hunter, William J.; Begoray, John – Writing Notebook, 1990
Presents some of the better-known models to describe the process to writing. Combines some of their common features into a framework that is useful for thinking and talking about the roles that computers may play in supporting "the writing process." (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Models, Process Approach (Writing)
Lord Fairfax Community Coll., Middletown, VA. – 1992
In an attempt to improve its students' writing abilities, as well as their critical thinking skills, Lord Fairfax Community College, in Virginia, developed a program called "Thinking through Writing." The project designers believed that concept formation, classification, memory enhancement, and other learning/thinking skills could be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Cousin, Patricia Tefft; Stires, Susan – Insights into Open Education, 1990
There are students whom teachers always seem to remember, primarily because they provide special insight into teaching and learning. These students, most of whom usually have learning difficulties in school, teach important lessons to teachers about determination, survival, and about becoming readers and writers. One such student is Kimberly,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Learning Problems