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Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – 1982
Objects assembled in nonrepresentational fashion from tinker toy pieces are the starting point for a technical description writing assignment designed to increase the students' awareness of audience while at the same time giving them practice in description, analysis, and active judgment. Having been separated into two groups, each facing a…
Descriptors: Audiences, Creative Teaching, Descriptive Writing, Feedback
Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – 1980
Essays in which 40 freshman composition students described unusual or extraordinary persons were analyzed for the charcteristic choices that males and females made and for the typical ways men and women were described. The analysis yielded seven findings with social implications. Both males and females tended to choose males as objects for…
Descriptors: Characterization, College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
