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Deming, Mary P.; Valeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1992
Discusses the use of computers in teaching basic writing to college students. Offers computer exercises and activities which foster a whole-language curriculum. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computers, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Hillebrand, Romana P. – English Journal, 1994
Describes a collaborative writing assignment devised for a first-year composition class. Outlines how the assignment was undertaken and carried out by the students. Provides background on the theoretical literature concerning collaborative writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, English Curriculum, English Instruction
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Herrick, Michael J. – English Quarterly, 1994
Describes how a writing teacher has his students write about one object in the four modes (description, narration, argumentation, and exposition) as a means of learning about writing and writing to learn. Suggests that students learn about their topics when they write about them in the four modes. (SR)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Narration
MacEachren, Zabe – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1999
Writing an environmental autobiography is an opportunity for students to reflect on the ways that their relationship to nature is constructed through experiences with such things as food, music, particular places, the outdoors, or acts of creativity. A collection of passages is presented that led to environmental autobiographies in an…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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McComiskey, Bruce – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1997
Proposes a turn toward "social-process rhetorical inquiry" in composition, a turn that requires further pedagogical adaptations of cultural studies methodologies in writing classrooms. Notes that the social-process heuristic is based on a cyclical model of writing processes, a model comprising cultural production, contextual…
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
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Hoffman, Joan – English in Texas, 1995
Makes a case for teaching integrity in the classroom through writing assignments and case studies of ethical situations that teenagers would face in their daily lives. (TB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
Barlow, Dudley – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
Everyone knows that plagiarism among high school and college students is so pervasive that combating it has become cottage industry. One solution to this problem is for teachers to purchase or subscribe to plagiarism detection computer programs. Many students and adults seem to have little awareness of or little regard for intellectual property.…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Computer Software, Writing Assignments, Ethics
Griffith, Kevin – 1996
Administrators at both state-funded and tuition-driven private institutions are now adhering to a bottom-line approach to education. In many cases, budget-minded administrators refuse to move forward on any educational initiative until this question is addressed: "What are you doing to encourage retention?" It is becoming clear that…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, School Holding Power
Ediger, Marlow – 1992
Writing is a fundamental skill for students to develop. A learning environment should be in evidence which assists students to achieve more optimally in writing. Writing activities should be interesting, purposeful, meaningful, and provide for individual differences. Students need stimulating learning opportunities involving a variety of purposes…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
McLaughlin, Maureen – 1994
Student-professor conferencing and students' increased self-reflection are two of the unexpected benefits of portfolio assessment. While self-reflection is a key component of meaningful conferencing, it is also clearly evinced in the students' rationale statements. These written reflections address the relevance of students' work to course…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Higher Education, Literacy, Methods Courses
Yoder, Sharon Burrowes – 1988
In traditional programming courses assignments usually consist of problems that are somewhat closed in nature. That is, students are usually given a rigidly defined problem statement and are provided with a set of data that they are to use to test their program to produce a unique result. While this approach makes evaluation easy, it discourages…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creativity, Discovery Learning, Evaluation Criteria
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Cahalan, James M. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Examines the debate between two approaches to teaching writing: imitation of classic models versus technical writing for the real world. Argues that, in either approach, a developmental sequence of assignments is paramount. Describes compromise course plan based on careers, in which students write research papers about vocations in which they are…
Descriptors: Assignments, Business English, Class Activities, Course Content
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Foyle, Harvey C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
The link that homework provides between school and community can become more productive if teachers and administrators ensure that the school homework is clear, meaningful, varied, and regularly assigned. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Morrell, Ernest – 2003
Critical pedagogy is fundamentally and ultimately linked with critical literacy. There can be no liberation of self or other without tools or language to perform counter-readings of dominant texts that serve the interests of power. Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo's work has, for some time, been a cornerstone for critical literacy, a model of…
Descriptors: Critical Pedagogy, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
Tighe, Mary Ann – 2002
The second semester of Freshman Composition at Troy State University focuses on writing about literature and writing a traditional research paper not necessarily based on literary research. One spring, the required reading was Shirley Ann Grau's novel, "The Keeper of the House." This novel, set in an unidentified Southern state, traces the history…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Literary Genres
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