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Vanden Akker, Sherri L. – 1991
A student was able to overcome flatness in his writing when he focused on the process of writing rather than the product. The student's draft of an essay about a symbol the student found meaningful contained spelling and grammatical errors and was also "flat." The essay had no apparent thesis, demonstrated lack of success in issues of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Student Writing Models, Writing Improvement
Sorenson, Sharon – 1988
Designed as a practical reference book that can be useful to readers in any writing situation, this handbook offers guidance for writing assignments across the curriculum as well as help in writing resumes, letters, and scholarship, college, and job applications. The handbook describes the 10 common methods for developing any kind of writing and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Secondary Education, Student Writing Models
Download full textWolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing)
Wolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing), Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMcCarthey, Sarah J. – Language Arts, 1994
Uses observations of three students' and two teachers' use of metaphors in process writing instruction to shed light on the role of talk in writing development. Finds that metaphors can be complex, interesting, and thought-provoking; and all students developed a shared understanding with teachers despite differences in background. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Metaphors
Peer reviewedHaddox, Gretchen – English Journal, 1998
Shows how teaching grammar through writing can be a successful strategy. Points out the steps one teacher used in teaching a writing and grammar process with her sixth graders and illustrates its effectiveness, both with one high-risk student and also through a school disruption caused by fire. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 6, Grammar, High Risk Students
Cuevas, Rosilis – 1995
A practicum developed and implemented a program to help change students' negative attitude toward writing, with the conviction that if students enjoy writing they will write more and produce writing that clearly communicates their ideas. The practicum's objectives were for 50% of the targeted students to: (1) write for at least 15-20 minutes at a…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Process Approach (Writing), Program Effectiveness
Wirth, Harold E. – 1993
A fourth-grade teacher developed a unit on writing designed to help his students go from oral to written text after finding that only 4 of the 22 in his classroom had the organizational and writing skills to get their ideas on paper. The basis of the unit was a unique problem which the teacher himself was trying to solve in real life; namely, how…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Strenski, Ellen, Ed. – 1986
Intended for teaching assistants and non-writing specialists to whom students come for help in preparing assigned writing papers, this guide suggests questions and comments to ask such students to help them clarify what is happening, or not happening, in their writing, and in the thinking which this writing reveals. The guide roughly parallels…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Process Approach (Writing)
