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Peckham, Irvin – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This essay describes Louisiana State University's search for an alternative to available placement protocols. Under the leadership of Les Perelman at MIT, LSU collaborated with four universities to develop iMOAT, a program for administering online assessments of student writing. This essay focuses on LSU's On-line Challenge, which developed from…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, College Students
Kraemer, Don J. – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2007
The risk posed by explicit instruction in composition is that the reduction of writing to stock moves and effective devices may diminish the writer's agency and guarantee reproduction of the teacher's. The advantage of explicit instruction is power: overt and recursive attention to selected strategies can help students imagine the public agency…
Descriptors: Assignments, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Revision (Written Composition)
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Thouesny, Sylvie – CALICO Journal, 2010
In a project-based approach to teaching a foreign language at the university level, students are often required to participate in several task-based writing activities. In doing so, language learners not only write incorrect forms, but also correct forms of the same structures, both of which provide useful information on their strengths and…
Descriptors: French, College Instruction, Case Studies, Language Proficiency
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Reid, E. Shelley – College Composition and Communication, 2009
While writing pedagogy instructors assign their students a range of writing tasks, often as central or repeated features of the course, a crucial question has not yet been addressed: does it matter what new teachers write? If pedagogy students are being assigned writing in part to further develop their attitudes and practices related to teaching…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Crawley, Sara L. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2008
For this essay, the author takes as an organizing premise Jodi O'Brien and Judith A. Howard's notion of responsible authority--that "teaching is a value-based activity" in which educators should be striving to engage students in academic pursuits in order to create a moral citizenry. That is, educators need to acknowledge that they wield the power…
Descriptors: Assignments, Lecture Method, Student Centered Curriculum, Learner Engagement
Wolk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
The reading students are required to do for school bears little semblance to the reading they do outside of school. Students today are reading the same texts in school that students read a generation ago, but the varieties of text used outside of school are much different. One result is that many students are unmotivated to become readers.…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Material Selection, Reading Motivation, Relevance (Education)
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Vallance, Elizabeth – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2007
A walk down Main Street can be very much like a stroll through a museum gallery--visually rich, inviting unexpected choices, aesthetically rewarding. This article explores the concept of shop windows as visually ordered compositions, much like paintings and other art objects, and suggests some approaches to applying this concept in teaching a…
Descriptors: Museums, Visual Arts, Art Education, Behavior
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Gannon, Susanne – English in Australia, 2009
A critical/creative paradigm in contemporary English carries with it an imperative that students should be given opportunities for deep engagement with texts relevant to what matters in their everyday lives. In this paper, I argue that the materiality of everyday life includes the physical and geographic places where we live. When students live in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Opportunities, Pragmatics, Second Languages
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Rabin, Sydell – English Journal, 1980
Urges teachers to keep reading and writing alive in the classroom by assigning a variety of books, including the classics, and by integrating written responses with the reading assignments. (DD)
Descriptors: Assignments, English Curriculum, Reading Assignments, Reading Instruction
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Hankins, Katherine B.; Yarbrough, Robert A. – Journal of Geography, 2008
University instructors are increasingly drawing on active learning exercises to engender critical thinking skills among students. In this article, we introduce the design and implementation of an active learning exercise about mobility and transportation that we assigned in an introductory human geography class at the University of Georgia. The…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Geography Instruction, College Instruction, Mobility
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Jakobsen, Arne; Bucciarelli, Louis L. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
An essential difficulty in solving practical problems that are not like the ones a student has solved before is discerning the core of the problem. It is claimed that discernment has to be trained by variation--by varying the context of the assignments in which students have to identify and grasp their "underlying form". A decisive…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Curriculum, Theory Practice Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Smarick, Andy – Education Next, 2008
In a decade and a half, the charter school movement has gone from a glimmer in the eyes of a few Minnesota reformers to a maturing sector of America's public education system. Now, like all 15-year-olds, chartering must find its own place in the world. First, advocates must answer a fundamental question: What type of relationship should the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Civil Rights
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O'Dowd, R.; Waire, P. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
In this article we examine how instructors make decisions about task design in telecollaboration and the factors that influence these decisions during the actual implementation of the tasks. We begin with a review of the recent literature of online intercultural exchanges to identify and describe a typology of 12 different types of tasks and task…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Teacher Collaboration, Assignments
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Lynch-Biniek, Amy – CEA Forum, 2007
The author has been tutoring and teaching writing for fifteen years, but has discovered that few people outside of academia know what it is that she does. Despite the rise in composition graduate programs and the improving market for composition specialists, even within the university, faculty from other disciplines frequently have vague notions…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers, Academic Discourse
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Boland, Mary – College English, 2007
Many students occupy a minimal space between the profession of composition studies and larger social and institutional constructions of composition, writing, and literacy. For most people outside the field, writing is viewed as a set of skills, rather than a substantive area of study. If students would only learn the rules--and if composition…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Academic Freedom, Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction
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