How students at Oregon State University use a new self-service media production laboratory to produce media instead of print term papers. (HB)

GURU is a computer program developed to analyze data generated by open-ended question techniques such as ECHO or other semistructured data collection techniques in which data are categorized. The program provides extensive descriptive statistics and allows extensive flexibility in comparing data. (Author/JKS)

Describes one teacher's presentation of the essay via the photograph; once students realized the parallels between planning a photograph and preparing to write, they not only wrote better, they saved time. (KS)

Suggests the distinction between reseeing and rewriting is the difference between substitution and combination. Claims that the epistemic approach imagines composition as a process through which the writer might learn something, and sees texts as indeterminate, open to further interpretation. (MS)

Offers guidelines for grading essays so that students and parents can see what is expected. Suggests keying a grading scale to the criteria set forth in the guidelines. (FL)

Holistic scoring of essays, a writing assessment method in which trained raters make a single overall judgement of the quality of a piece of writing, has acceptable reliability, face validity, and speed of administration. (Author/CL)

This book features rhetorically-arranged activities and assignments that connect students' everyday lives to the writing process. The individual and group assignments in the book appeal to different student learning styles and encourage an interactive approach to writing. The text is divided into four main parts: The Narrative Essay; The…

Business communication is different from other domains in that its contextual meaning requires previous metacognitive mediation of signs. The communicative process in business is aimed at accomplishing a specific outcome. Various forms of meaning come into play in business communication such as denotative, connotative, stylistic, affective,…

This textbook is sixth in a series of readers. Selections include essays, short stories, and poems related to American history and culture. [This textbook was written with the assistance of May Harris. Note: Page iii is missing from the full text. For Book Five, see ED622332.]

Consists of a series of reviews of different kinds of films that are considered appropriate for instructional needs. (RK)

Research in the humanities should be done in areas of interest, under circumstances conducive to intellectual study and should not be undertaken for the purposes of gathering all information on a subject, for the purpose of seeking the novel, in order to apply the latest research tools, or totally because the subject is being taught and…

Presents a brief history of objective tests and their characteristics and limitations as compared to essay tests. (CP)