Examines the personal writing method proposed by Ken Macrorie and explains how it can help students conceptualize and form generalizations that extend their personal reminiscences into more objective expository writing. (HTH)

A third-grade teacher describes his 12-week project to teach students to organize their ideas and to write factual stories. A composition on a different topic was assigned each week. (SJL)

Expository writing, it is suggested, is a skill that a student will employ throughout an undergraduate career and even into professional life. In light of this fact, additional measures are advocated to promote good writing in institutions of higher education. (MLW)

Describes how a writing teacher teaches expository strategies to students within the engineering community. Demonstrates that expository strategies can invigorate--rather then suffocate--students when the composition course is linked to a disciplinary course where students can apply the strategies to concrete problems. (RS)

Highlights the types of inferences four students in grades 2-5 drew while constructing meaning from expository passages. Includes an analysis of their think alouds and recommendations for comprehension instruction. Explores what factors contribute to successful inferencing. Sheds new light on the range of strategies elementary grade students use…

Contends that essays are the proper rhetorical domain of stories, the place where stories most naturally belong when they are being used for the development and enlargement of ideas. Notes that stories are so powerful and distracting that when used together to make a familiar story, they can divert attention away from the essay's idea. Concludes…

Describes technical writing as a career option, and delineates the most common technical writing positions in a large company: Technical Writer I and II, Senior Technical Writer, Copy Editors, Proofreaders, and Data Entry Operators. Entry requirements and potential for advancement are discussed. (TE)

Details a lesson which facilitates the transition from writing narrative prose to writing more difficult expository structures by engaging students in writing a research report on a fantasy animal they create. (MM)

Discusses common flaws in Anticipation Guide statements (teacher generated statements, used in teaching expository reading, about a topic that students respond to before reading about that topic). Offers guidelines for writing statements and examples of ineffective and effective statements. (SR)

Argues for the usefulness of merging experimental and correlational approaches in the study of expository prose comprehension. Reviews studies in recent years. Shows that the correlational approach yields results similar to the experimental literature, and that the vast databanks associated with multiple-choice tests allow exploration of some of…

Reports observations of two courses of Community Service Writing wherein the teacher incorporated community-based writing assignments in order to help students writing outside the university. Finds that the curriculum did not support students' transitions to nonacademic settings. Calls for a model of rhetorically focused composition instruction…

Presents a series of alternatives to the modernist research paper: the argumentative research paper, the personal research paper, the research essay, and the multi-genre/media/disciplinary/cultural research paper. Addresses theoretical implications of alternative research writing strategies. (NH)

Investigates the nature of book discussions about expository and narrative texts in fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms. Notes that literary and informational topics were discussed most. Finds that teachers' questions posed during the expository discussion were more literal than for the narrative text. Provides useful information regarding…

In this study, 36 participants read an expository text describing 4 rare illnesses from a given perspective. Their eye movements were recorded during reading, and think-alouds were probed after 10 relevant and 10 irrelevant sentences. A free recall was collected after reading. The results showed that in addition to increasing the fixation time…

To teach students particular ways of thinking in the humanities, three faculty in literature and creative writing discover how to conceptualize these approaches for students and model them or have students model them in the classroom, and they assess the results on student learning. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)