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McNair, John R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Describes a prewriting technique in which technical writing students are given a tool or mechanism with which they are unfamiliar and told to figure out what the object is from a series of clues. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Prewriting

Ellis, Grace W. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Argues against requiring students to prepare formal outlines before writing papers and recommends instead that students prepare the rough, idiosyncratic lists that working writers use before they write. (AEA)
Descriptors: Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges, Writing (Composition)

Sunstein, Bonnie; Anderson, Philip M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Describes a classroom assignment sequence in which students learn to think metaphorically about a scientific topic. Provides sample reading log questions and a prewriting worksheet. (MM)
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Higher Education, Metaphors, Prewriting

Carpender, Carol; Trippensee, James – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Presents a theoretical model of the writing process and suggests having students create a picture collage as an introduction to the various roles and stages in the writing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Decoding (Reading), Higher Education

Ambron, Joanna – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Speculates that the prewriting technique of "clustering" can be an effective tool for multicultural college students learning sophisticated scientific concepts. Asserts that teachers must be willing to take risks and nurture students' creativity and self-confidence if such techniques are to succeed and supplant or supplement the lecture…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Multicultural Education, Prewriting

Wess, Robert C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Proposes that teachers use their own writing as a teaching tool. Discusses both the left-brain logical, rational approach and the right-brain intuitive approach to invention and states that in composing their own methods and materials, instructors can stress both patterns of creativity by illustrating how each complements the other. (EL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity, Expository Writing

Mixson, Imogene M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Describes several techniques for making discussion groups function well in a composition classroom. (AEA)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Groups