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| Exercise Exchange | 179 |
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| Donelson, Ken | 4 |
| Bloom, Lynn Z. | 3 |
| Braswell, Mary Flowers | 3 |
| Lampert, Kathleen | 3 |
| Mackey, Gerald | 3 |
| Parry, Sally E. | 3 |
| Perrin, Robert | 3 |
| Sanchez, Rebecca | 3 |
| Shuman, R. Baird | 3 |
| Clark, John R. | 2 |
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Peer reviewedVoelker, Francis; Voelker, Ludmila – Exercise Exchange, 1973
Describes a method for teaching high school and college composition courses using the mass media as a source of instructional materials. (RB)
Descriptors: Audiences, English Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMiller, Hildy – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Offers a sequence of assignments to help students understand that metaphors are not confined to literature texts and are not confined to single sentences. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedWallace, Ray – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Describes a six-phase writing assignment for ESL students to help them grasp the concept of an audience beyond the writing instructor. (HTH)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedScenters-Zapico, John T. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Presents a positive, detailed scheme for evaluating students' papers. Includes an example of student writing with marks from the guide. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Grading, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSpeck, Bruce W. – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Presents a method for impressing upon students the need for more precision in language usage. (FL)
Descriptors: English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
Peer reviewedClark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1982
Discusses some engaging, occasionally earthy, lines from poetry that can be used to capture students' attention and interest in the form. (HTH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, English Instruction, Higher Education, Motivation Techniques
Peer reviewedJones, William – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Illustrates how a controlled writing exercise for students of English as a second language can be used to help native speakers of English learn paragraph development. (TJ)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedSamson, Donald C. – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Describes the use of Tarot cards to help students achieve clarity in descriptive writing and learn how to interpret symbols. (TJ)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBraswell, Mary Flowers – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Describes an activity in which students are given copies of a poem by Emily Dickinson in her own handwriting and are assigned the task, in groups, of preparing a version of the poem for publication. Notes that this activity makes students aware of an editor's work and the work that goes into preparing material for publication. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Editing, English Instruction
Peer reviewedCrowe, Chris – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes a method for teaching several novels simultaneously to students in the same English classroom. Provides a list of questions to be answered by students at various stages of reading a particular novel. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedParry, Sally E. – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Discusses a college course on "the Bible as Literature." Describes how, by focusing on the biography of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels, and comparing it to other cultural narratives about him (in the Apocrypha, films, biographies, and novels), students learn to see how various ages and cultures have reshaped Jesus's life and mission.…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Biographies, Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions
Peer reviewedRazzano, Elaine – Exercise Exchange, 2000
Describes a writing exercise for middle schoolers to college students that encourages students to become more aware of language, especially word choice and audience in their writing, by writing lipograms (compositions from which all words containing a certain letter are omitted). Notes it can be used as a pre-revision activity, part of a poetry…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Arts, Revision (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedStanton, Michael N. – Exercise Exchange, 1973
Discusses how to deal with "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien as a centerpiece for a course in science-fiction and fantasy literature. (RB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, English Instruction, English Literature
Peer reviewedGoldzung, Valerie – Exercise Exchange, 1973
Describes a method of teaching form in literature by having students write about the point of view, the setting, or the person in a story or poem.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedBrookes, Timothy – Exercise Exchange, 1976
Presents exercises for two subjects which students find among the less interesting: constructing arguments and writing expository prose, especially factual reporting. (JM)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Expository Writing, Higher Education
