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Download full textStein, Mark J. – 1987
A study analyzed how freshman composition students handled an assignment that forced them to perform an act of sophisticated literacy which was a variation between spontaneity (present) and repetition (past) with a focus on how novice writers borrow language, whether through quotation or misquotation. The assignment involved two masterpieces of…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Language Variation, Persuasive Discourse, Student Writing Models
Caplan, Rebekah; Keech, Catharine – 1980
A training program designed to teach high school students to be specific in their writing is described in this booklet. The first section of the booklet explains the three stages of the program: (1) daily practice in translating a "telling" sentence into a "showing" paragraph; (2) application of "showing" writing to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Program Descriptions, Sequential Learning, Skill Development
Taylor, Patricia Simmons; And Others – 1982
This field manual for composition teachers, written by community college and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) writing instructors, examines practical and theoretical problems and strategies associated with teaching composition. Essays in chapter I, by Ruth Mitchell and Faye Peitzman, underscore the relevance and implications of…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, English (Second Language), Postsecondary Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Jill; Stamm, Carol – Written Communication, 1990
Investigates teacher-student conferences' influence on first graders' revision activity and knowledge about revision. Finds the most positive effects occurred for students who began with the least amount of knowledge about revision, who previously were doing the least amount of revision, and who were writing pieces judged among the lowest in…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Research, Grade 1, Primary Education
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
Bean, Wendy; Bouffler, Chrystine – 1987
Specifically intended to address the teaching of spelling, this description of an elementary school program in Australia deals with many of the pedagogical problems that arise in whole language classrooms, and suggests ways for teachers to integrate a process approach to spelling with process writing to create a total language program. Following…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Process Education
