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R. Yohanes Radjaban; Eko Setyo Humanika – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Problems in developing writing often comes from creative processes in developing ideas to write. Outlines are often recommended as a tool to help students organize their thoughts and structure their writing. This study aims to find out students' perceptions and the challenges the students encountered when writing an exposition text using provided…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Expository Writing
Carey, Linda; And Others – 1989
An exploratory study investigated how writers represent their task to themselves before beginning to write. Using data from verbal protocols, the initial plans of 12 writers (5 experts and 7 student writers) who were working on an expository writing task were examined. The protocols were coded for types of planning. Independent measures of the…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Planning, Prewriting, Protocol Analysis
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King, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
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McKenzie, Jamieson – English Journal, 1984
Describes the steps a writer can go through in producing an article and how a word processor can facilitate the thought and compositional processes. (CRH)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Prewriting, Word Processing
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Sinatra, Richard – English Quarterly, 1983
Explains four visual composition preparations providing both concrete experiences to stimulate student writing and a nonverbal means of teaching the internal structure of discourse. (MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Fenton, Mary C. – 1983
The synthesis of four instructional models for argumentative writing--the Toulmin, Hiduke, Winder, and Crebbe-Debate approaches--with basic discourse theory produces a practical and positive method of teaching college students to write effective persuasive essays. A battery of questions based on a modified communication triangle--subject…
Descriptors: College English, Essays, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Wess, Robert C. – 1982
A teacher-written essay comparing writing to farming served as a process model for analogical student themes. This assignment, given to 39 students in 2 classes of a first course in freshman composition, produced complete analogical essays in all but 4 cases. The essays, questionnaire responses, and retrospective essays on the writing of the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Discovery Processes, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Camp, Gerald, Ed. – 1982
Each written by a classroom teacher and based on the experience of that teacher working with his or her students, the articles in this collection are an extension of the Bay Area Writing Project assumptions. Many contain samples of writing done by students in response to the writing tasks described. After a preamble that discusses what is already…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Chandrasegaran, Antonia – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1989
Teaching and learning activities for idea generation and planning, used to teach expository writing to university students in Singapore, are described. The techniques are applicable to both English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-first-language composition classes. (14 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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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
Braungart, Diane S. – 1985
Noting that effective writing instruction depends on careful planning informed by knowledge of the writing process and its variations in relation to different audiences and purposes, this teacher's guide explains the nature of the writing process and how it relates to instruction. The purposes of the guide are threefold: to highlight current…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Language Usage
McCleary, William J. – 1983
The case approach to academic writing requires a student to use subjects in an active way while writing. This approach, appropriate in content courses as well as in composition classes, improves a writer's logic more quickly and effectively than concentrating on logic alone. In the case approach, a student is given a body of information about a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Deduction
Flower, Linda – 1987
Second in the series "Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process," this report looks at the different ways students represent reading-to-write tasks to themselves, analyzes the resulting divergence in their writing goals and strategies, and recommends teaching task representation as an interpretive process that continues…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a vareity of topics, including the following: (1) the interrelationship of reading and writing in the composing process; (2) the relationship between composition teachers' ability to write and the writing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Cohesion (Written Composition), Doctoral Dissertations
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Strickland, James – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Distinguishes between using microcomputers for wordprocessing, drills, and repetitive tasks in mechanics and vocabulary and using them for alternative methods of presenting, reviewing, and testing course materials. Argues software for computer assisted writing instruction should address significant writing problems, approach writing from a true…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
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