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Download full textBaxter, Douglas Clark – 1984
The integration of content area writing instruction into the history curriculum has been a slow process. A history course at Ohio University (Athens) offers students experience in writing the type of materials written by practicing historians: book reviews, journal articles, and articles for encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries. Such short…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Direct linkUrquhart, Vicki – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
Most educators intuitively understand the critical relationship between thinking and writing: writing allows us to express what we think, but the very act of writing spurs a process of exploration that changes our thinking and helps us learn. "Teaching Writing in the Content Areas" examines nearly 30 years of research to identify how teachers can…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Desjardins, Linda A. – 1987
Since engineering graduates and other technical students are frequently expected to document their projects as well as present such material orally, a Speech and Technical Writing course was designed at a New Hampshire college to prepare students for both technical writing tasks and oral presentations of their material. The course provides an…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Documentation, Engineering Education
Mueller, Lyn Zalusky; And Others – 1987
Designed to assist primary teachers in creating a classroom environment that stimulates students' growth in writing, this guide offers suggestions, lists, charts, and activities for classroom use in the primary grades. Following a preface and philosophy, the first section discusses young writers and the writing process, with subsections on stages…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Content Area Writing, Course Content
Kelder, Richard – 1987
Assigned to teach a freshman composition course with a history and reading co-requisite, a New York college instructor developed a course in which students would begin to see history--through their reading, writing, and thinking--as a series of events intricately connected with their own lives and ways of looking at the world, rather than…
Descriptors: Biographies, Content Area Writing, Course Content, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedCharlesworth, Susanne M.; Foster, Ian D. L. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1996
Describes and evaluates an unusual and innovative assessment procedure used in an undergraduate hydrology and oceanography class. Working in teams, English students produce research articles published by an in-house, though refereed, academic journal. Professors and students agree that the process stimulates students to perform at their highest…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning, Course Content, Experiential Learning
