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Sperling, Marko; Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2017
Just as composing a story, a report, or an argumentative essay is challenging for most students with LD, so it is challenging for teachers in inclusive settings to instruct them (Gillespie & Kiuhara, 2017; Grünke & Leonard Zabel, 2015). The articles in this issue of "Insights into Learning Disabilities" are geared towards special…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Writing Exercises, Intervention, Writing Improvement
Grünke, Matthias; Coeppicus, Christin – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2017
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of contingency contracting on the percentage of correctly used punctuation marks in free writing tasks. Participants were three 11-year-old boys with learning disabilities (LD). A multiple-baseline across-subjects design was employed to test our prediction that the students would show…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Punctuation, Grade 5, Writing Exercises
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
Geither, Elise; Meeks, Lisa – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014
When it comes to academic work, students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have the required knowledge but struggle to get their thoughts down in writing. This is a practical guide to teaching and improving writing skills in students with ASD to meet academic writing standards and prepare for the increased expectations of higher education.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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)
Ortiz, Lorelei A. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
To teach effective business communication, instructors must target students’ current weaknesses in writing. One method for doing so is by assigning writing exercises. When used heuristically, writing exercises encourage students to practice self-assessment, self-evaluation, active learning, and knowledge transfer, all while reinforcing the basics…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Business Communication, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students
Heveron-Smith, Mary – English Journal, 2012
In this article, the author talks about the use of punctuation and describes a study that confirmed her growing sense that all students need exposure to and instruction on the full repertoire of punctuation. In an attempt to assess how much of the eleventh graders know about the way professionals use punctuation, all teachers at Webster Thomas…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Punctuation, Grade 11, Classroom Research
Artunduaga Cuéllar, Marco Tulio – HOW, 2013
This article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university. Given the fact that the teaching of grammar has…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Grammar, Action Research, Competency Based Education
Medina, Adriana L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
In order for students to write like authors they need to read like writers. This requires direct instruction in attending to the writing craft through the use of quality adolescent literature and engagement in reading and writing. This article focuses on writing catchy introductions. The author offers the lesson objective and a teacher script…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Hartnet, Carolyn G. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Lists eight ways to develop a topic for a composition. (DF)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Broyles, Bill – English Journal, 1988
Describes a synonym exercise--composing an essay without using the verbs "be,""have,""go," or "get"--which increases students' awareness of at least six different language features. (MM)
Descriptors: Language Usage, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Douglas, Krystan V. – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Describes a freshman composition assignment in which students create fictional figures and approach a final biography about the figure through a series of shorter essays. (HTH)
Descriptors: Biographies, Characterization, Higher Education, Teaching Methods

Clark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Suggests using poetry's short short forms for a methodical and rapid series of writing assignments that emphasize both careful writing at the sentence level and overall planning and respect for form. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Carter, John Marshall – Momentum, 1985
Describes how teachers can use the Bayeux Tapestry as the basis for writing games in many disciplines. Offers guidelines for conducting introductory lectures and preliminary investigations. Presents a series of writing games for the following disciplines: Art, Communications, English/Language Arts/Foreign Languages, History/Social Sciences, Home…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods

Edelsky, Carole; Smith, Karen – Language Arts, 1984
Discusses the differences between inauthentic and authentic writing, arguing that most writing in school is inauthentic, because it is written for someone else's intentions. Examples are cited from a classroom with an essentially whole language orientation, but which occasionally reverts to inauthentic writing assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises