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Bleeker, Gerrit; Bleeker, Barbara – ALAN Review, 1996
Claims that capturing an adolescent novel in shaped, found, or structured poetry gives students ways to tell others what the novel meant to them. Discusses five poetic forms (riddle poem, found poem, character poem, poem for two voices, and repeat poster poem) and presents student poems. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Reader Response
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Murray, Heather – College English, 1991
Analyzes the institutionality and intractability of the "close reading" assignment. Maintains that the close reading assignment functions as an index to English in the academy. (RS)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Writing (Composition)
Soven, Margot; Sullivan, William M. – Freshman English News, 1990
Argues that exploratory discourse, an old but little appreciated genre, may be particularly suited for revealing and enabling the kind of thinking in matters that do not lend themselves to absolute proof. Discusses exploratory writing assignments suitable for freshman composition courses. (RS)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Literary Devices
Rose, Shirley K. – Writing Instructor, 1989
Explores the use of the term "voice" in written discourse as a metaphor for "authority," a quality that distinguishes an effective writer. Proposes a "scale of negotiation" and a sequence of assignments for a 15-week term in which students gradually establish a position of authority over their texts. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Andrea; Moore, Julie A. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1994
Presents a writing assignment from a class in general semantics in which students write about a personal application of general semantics. Presents a paper submitted by one student. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problem Solving, Semantics, Student Writing Models
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Fleckenstein, Kristie S. – English Journal, 1992
Presents a conception of writing assignments as a navigation through five writing "events" that students experience through individually imposed writing tasks. Describes the five events within each assignment. Concludes with positive student evaluations. (HB)
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Polin, Linda – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Argues that writing instruction should lead student writers to find their voice in their writing and that this will only happen if they write often for personal purposes and personal expression. (SR)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement
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Kurth, Suzanne – English in Texas, 1995
Describes a writing assignment based on a teacher-created scenario in which students discover a box (when visiting their grandmother's sister) containing a number of strange items including a written proposal for marriage. (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Lesson Plans, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments
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Perrin, Robert – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2000
Suggests that the five-paragraph theme does in fact have value, and explains why assumptions about its ills are wrong-minded. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement
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Leggo, Carl – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
I invite and encourage students to take risks in their writing, to engage innovatively with a wide range of genre, to push limits in order to explore creatively how language and discourse are never ossified, but always organic, how language use is integrally and inextricably connected to identity, knowledge, subjectivity, and living. Informed by…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Postmodernism, Writing (Composition)
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McKinney, Kathleen – Teaching Sociology, 1987
Briefly clarifies two important issues in the teaching of sociology of human sexuality: what a sociological approach to human sexuality entails, and how to help students link course material with the world around them. (Author/AEM)
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Sex Education
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Jongsma, Eugene – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reviews research related to homework and makes recommendations for its effective use. (FL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Homework
Bartlett, J. L. – 2002
Being "unfailingly conscious" of one's subject position (and performing it in a formal writing assignment) are the tenets of "initiation pedagogy," the intertextual analysis behind D. Bartholomae and A. Petrosky's "Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts," and their subsequent composition textbook "Ways of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Assignments
Bunz, Ulla – 2001
As the Internet is becoming more and more of a commonplace technology in the Western world, many communication programs have begun to offer technology-related communication courses. Usually, these classes require students to create a Web site. A good Web site, however, requires more than colored text, a few graphics, and a few links. This paper…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creative Activities, Higher Education, Internet
Huff, Linda – 2002
An instructor of an advanced composition course (adapted from one taught by James Seitz at the University of Pittsburgh) at the University of California Riverside took her students through a series of reading and writing assignments that asked them to "engage in a wide variety of prose styles and...consider what style suggests about language,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Assignments
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