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Formulaic Writing: Catalyst for Student Composition and Language Study.
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Phillips, D. – English Quarterly, 1982
Suggests that using a formula approach to constructing topic sentences can serve to motivate student writing and to inform students about the methods used to produce mass circulation fiction and tabloid writing. (AEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Motivation Techniques, Prewriting, Sentences
Students Write Stories: Inside-Out and Outside-In.
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Jacobsen, Mary – English Quarterly, 1981
Describes how students can be encouraged to draw upon their imaginations and upon their observations of and speculations about the outside world to write their own short fiction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fiction, Group Activities, Higher Education
Attending to Sentence Beginnings.
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Plattor, Emma; Washburn, William – English Quarterly, 1981
Suggests teaching a variety of sentence beginnings in writing instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Group Activities, Models, Prewriting, Secondary Education
Assessing the Journal: An Exercise in Self-Evaluation.
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Butler, Sydney – English Quarterly, 1981
Outlines a program in journal writing and self-assessment for college students. (AEA)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Higher Education, Prewriting, Program Descriptions
Of Ships and Sealing Wax: Drafting and Revising Processes in Grade Twelve Students' Examination Writing.
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Gee, T. W. – English Quarterly, 1985
Explores writing research on the composing process regarding the relationship of the topic selected to the score obtained, the relationship of the score to the use of both an outline and a rough draft, and the relationship of the amount of revision to the quality of essays obtained. (EL)
Descriptors: Grade 12, Performance Factors, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)