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Peer reviewedMoore, Leslie S. – English Journal, 1992
Discusses the architectonics of four essays: John McPhee's "Travels in Georgia," Richard Rhodes'"Death All Day," and two by student writers. Diagrams each essay, showing how these writers built bridges of words over experiences. (SR)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Secondary Education, Text Structure
Peer reviewedSelf, Lynda – English Journal, 1988
Describes a method of writing about literature in which "major detail sentences" (sentences which make generalizations about the point of the paragraph) help students combine their observations and the facts of the story into an analytical form. (MM)
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Text Structure
Peer reviewedFowler, Lois Josephs; Pesante, Linda Hutz – English Journal, 1989
Shows how to help students fill in textual "gaps" to interact more fully with contemporary texts, classics, and myths. Presents examples of this approach for studying (1) Shakespeare's "Hamlet" with Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"; and (2) George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" with the…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), English Instruction, Films, Literature Appreciation
