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Maru, Mister Gidion; Nur, Sahril – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The emergence of the COVID-19 as the global pandemic with its social and physical distancing consequence has affected educational practices. This paper reports the experience of carrying out a study on applying video for writing of descriptive text in EFL [English as Foreign Language] Class. The purpose of this research was to examine whether the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Descriptive Writing, Writing Skills, Skill Development
Nair, Subadrah Madhawa; Sanai, Mogana – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2018
Students' ESL writing skills in general are not at a desirable level. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of utilizing the STAD [Student Team Achievement Division] method to enhance descriptive writing skills among students in an international school in Selangor, Malaysia. This study employed an action research design.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Descriptive Writing, Writing Skills
Instructor, 1978
Eight ideas to motivate children to write. (CM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Motivation Techniques
Wolff, Aline – 1975
There is a logical sequence in the steps of a freshman English course, the goal of which is the comprehension of the writing process and a readiness to move forward with that process. Students must first learn prewriting--an outpouring on paper of every thought connected with a given topic. This is followed by selecting ideas, formulating a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Dudley, Juanita Williams – 1976
This paper examines technical writing at the high school level and suggests methods of teaching technical writing to students. Such topics are discussed as demonstration, mechanism description, causal analysis, detail, spatial order, and chronological order. It is argued that writing about objects can sharpen a writer's powers of observation and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing
Symes, Ken M. – 1972
Teaching students to use specific details is perhaps the college writing teacher's most troublesome job. Much time and effort is wasted by marking students' papers with comments such as "specify,""details,""illustrate," or "demonstrate." Significant concrete details should occur to a writer before the generalization does, since the best kind of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing
Graves, Donald H. – Learning, 1978
Brief individual conferences between teacher and student during the course of writing a composition helps the student to clarify his or her thinking on the topic, thus improving writing skills and developing enthusiasm and pleasure in written communication. (JD)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Skill Development
Cline, Sister Deborah – Elementary English, 1971
Discusses the preperation necessary for children's poetic expression of creativity, the teachers role and the process by which the children can be aided to write poetry. (RB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Language Rhythm
Fina, Allan de – Instructor, 1992
Presents suggestions for teaching students about poetry by using pets. The article recommends discussing poems about pets, writing with rhyme to describe pets, writing free-verse sketches about pets, collaboratively describing pets, and studying line breaks by writing one-line descriptions of imaginary pets. A reproducible teacher page offers two…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
Morgan, Jean – 1979
The beginning creative writer usually needs to learn the distinction between creative writing and purely informational or reportorial exposition. This can often be accomplished through writing assignments incorporating the concepts of New Journalism--the method of rendering realistically, from the point of view of an outsider who has temporarily…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education, New Journalism
Mallinger, Anita E. – 1976
Getting students involved in the process of heightening, which is really the transforming of experience and self-expression into fiction, is a basic factor in teaching the writing of fiction. This process of heightening involves two devices for communicating "felt life": concretization and dramatization. In teaching these devices, prewrigting…
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Experience

Mueller, Lavonne – English Journal, 1971
The drawings of Saul Steinberg can be a workable way of introducing the student to composition. Article explains how to overcome the getting started" problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Cartoons, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, High School Students

Samson, Donald C. – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Describes the use of Tarot cards to help students achieve clarity in descriptive writing and learn how to interpret symbols. (TJ)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Fina, Allan de – Instructor, 1992
Presents two children's poems about candy, by Dorothy Aldis. The article describes a teaching unit on the poems, the poet, and her use of end rhymes. Activities include writing rhyming words, writing rhyming poems, rhyming a recipe, and creating collages. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
Sieben, J. Kenneth – 1974
Students should be encouraged and taught how to write more effectively. This may be accomplished by involving them in two types of writing--the journal and the essay. The student is encouraged to record in his journal what he did and thought during the day, regardless of the trivialities. The journal is never evaluated by the instructor unless the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction