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Thomas, P. L. – English Journal, 2011
In this high-accountability era--one in which there is an expanding movement to condemn teachers for the failures of their schools--teachers teach students who believe writing is primarily an act of complying to a prompt, likely for a state accountability assessment or the troubling 25-minute essay that constitutes less than half of the writing…
Descriptors: Accountability, Writing Instruction, Best Practices, Educational Practices
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Moore, Leslie S. – English Journal, 1992
Discusses the architectonics of four essays: John McPhee's "Travels in Georgia," Richard Rhodes'"Death All Day," and two by student writers. Diagrams each essay, showing how these writers built bridges of words over experiences. (SR)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Secondary Education, Text Structure
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Self, Lynda – English Journal, 1988
Describes a method of writing about literature in which "major detail sentences" (sentences which make generalizations about the point of the paragraph) help students combine their observations and the facts of the story into an analytical form. (MM)
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Text Structure