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Roundy, Nancy – Technical Writing Teacher, 1982
Describes a pedagogical approach to teaching composition, based on research indicating that inexperienced writers have undeveloped composing processes. Presents a sample lesson for describing an item that gives technical writing students knowledge of how they write and introduces them to strategies for mastering the composing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education, Skill Development
Matheson, Carol – 1980
A study examined whether using a tree diagram (a graphic, multidimensional classification device) as a prewriting organizer would provide students with a systematic method of searching for and organizing the content of their descriptive writing to meet some communication goal. One-hundred twenty-three seventh grade students were classified as…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Descriptive Writing, Diagrams, Grade 7
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Christensen, Linda M. – English Journal, 1989
Discusses ways to empower students through writing, using their own voices, plumbing their own lives for stories, poems, and essays; and engaging them in dialogue with their peers about writing and literature. (RAE)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Personal Narratives, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Wall, Susan V. – 1980
Students in college basic writing courses need to consider their own written language and to compare it with other students' work before they can develop a sense of the symbolic relationship between language and experience. Because of a lack of previous writing experience, basic writers have no sense that the "facts" about which they…
Descriptors: Assignments, College English, Concept Formation, Decision Making