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Masiello, Lea; Skipper, Tracy L. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2013
Surveys of employers continually highlight the need for better communication skills among recent college graduates. Yet, writing instruction in higher education serves far more than a transactional purpose. Writing facilitates learning, helps students gain skills in analysis and synthesis, and supports a range of other personal and intellectual…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Communication Skills, Writing Instruction, College Seniors
Ashburn, Ann – Highway One, 1984
Argues that children want to write and enjoy writing and that teachers need to provide them with suitable opportunities for doing so. Discusses different kinds of writing that allow children's voices to come through. (FL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Writing Exercises
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Gersten, Russell; Baker, Scott – Elementary School Journal, 2001
Presents analysis of 13 studies designed to teach students with learning disabilities to write better expository or narrative text. Notes the success of these interventions, and details three components for any comprehensive instructional program: instruction in writing process, critical dimensions of different writing genres, and structures for…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Meta Analysis, Special Education
Selfe, Cynthia L.; Arbabi, Freydoon – Engineering Education, 1983
An experiment in which students were required to keep journals during a civil engineering course is described. Student benefits (journals as problem-solving tools and forums for personal comments), faculty benefits (sources of background information and use as evaluation/recordkeeping tools), and five major conclusions are discussed. (JN)
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Malloy, Thomas E. – 1987
Focusing on techniques for teaching students to integrate diverse ideas at a deep level of cognitive processing, a study evaluated an idea integration package for teaching writing in the college classroom. Subjects, 29 college students from an introductory psychology class at a Utah university, were divided into two groups. The integration group…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Brainstorming, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes
Burrows, Alvina Treut; And Others – 1984
Based on the authors' classroom work and observations since the 1930s, this book is intended to help teach children to write correctly and, at the same time, help them learn to enjoy writing so much that they will want to continue writing throughout their lives. The book offers classroom teachers, school library media specialists, curriculum…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
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McGinley, William; Madigan, Daniel – Language Arts, 1990
Discusses getting children to focus as much on the process by which they do their research as on the content of the research itself. Describes a project with fifth grade students in which children orchestrate their own reading, writing, and talking as they investigate their topic. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Neill, Shirley Boes – 1982
The nine articles in this guide discuss the problems involved in teaching writing and offer suggestions for improving writing instruction. The first article presents responses given by educators to a nationwide survey concerning the causes of writing problems, concluding that until recently the biggest problems were untrained teachers and a lack…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Donato, Marjorie – 1990
A course of study was researched, designed, and implemented to improve the writing of fifth-grade students. Objectives of the program were to develop more positive feelings about writing while increasing the quantity, quality, and variety of writing. Cooperative learning and process writing was discussed with the participants, their parents, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5
Greene, Jennifer E. – 1983
Most school writing required of students is done in artificial situations that have little resemblance to the writing demands people actually face. For this reason, students often fail to see the value of writing and thus produce writing that does not reflect their true ability to communicate. In a bilingual Los Angeles school serving students…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English, Interpersonal Communication
Marik, Ray – 1982
This book recounts the struggles and successes of one Seattle School District secondary school composition teacher guiding special education students through the writing process. The nine students had an IQ range of 59 to 109 and had an age range of 14 to 17 years. Of the students assigned to this class: one was neurologically impaired; one was…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Mainstreaming