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Warner, Joan Elizabeth – ABCA Bulletin, 1979
Suggests ten ways to upgrade writing skills instruction, thereby improving student writing ability. Cites research in support of the ten suggestions. (RL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Educational Needs, Educational Research, English Instruction
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O'Loughlin, Kieran – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Investigates whether English teachers and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) rate writing samples differently using both holistic (global) and analytical (multiple trait) scoring methods. Findings suggest that the analytical scoring method may be more faithful to real dissimilarities existing between these two groups than is the…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Essays
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Flanders, Marianne; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Contains six short descriptions of lesson plans that teachers have found effective in a range of areas: (1) first day confidence building; (2) innovative lessons in punctuation; (3) approaches to teaching the comparison/contrast papers; (4) writing about possible careers; (5) student presentations designed to make literature come alive; (6)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
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Bruthiaux, Paul – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Reviews the evolution of semicolon use in English, examining the frequency of semicolons, colons, and dashes in grammar, language, and linguistic books from the mid-16th century to the present. Concludes that after flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, the semicolon may have become a marginal component of the English punctuation system. (42…
Descriptors: Books, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Rodgers, Molly; Zimmer, Linda M. – 1990
Intended for use by students at any level above grade 3, this practice book helps students use the parts of speech correctly in speaking and writing. The book reviews (1) the kinds of sentences; (2) the use of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives in sentences; (3) capitalization and punctuation; and (4) proofreading. The book is…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education, English, Grammar
Kepaski, Krume; Jusuf, Shaip – 1985
An English translation of a grammar of the language used by the Roma, a group of wanderers living in many countries, united by a common language, and often called Bohemians or gypsies, begins with a translator's preface concerning the group's history and the development of the language and dialects. Preliminary material contains a brief history of…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Baker, M.; Block, C.; Borla, L.; Dietrich, G.; Hockett, M.; Holly, Thad – 1997
Providing grade 8 to adult students with practice and reinforcement in editing for capitalization, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, usage, and content, this computer software program contains over 30 written accounts that have been sequenced from easier to more difficult. The program has 3 levels of play: beginning, intermediate, and advanced. At…
Descriptors: Adults, Critical Thinking, Editing, Grammar
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Neuleib, Janice; Scharton, Maurice – College English, 1982
Reports on the success of a writing center's phone service, which answers questions about English usage, grammar, punctuation, diction, and documentation. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Grammar, Higher Education, Hotlines (Public)
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Allen, John Robin – CALICO Journal, 1996
Discusses how computer-assisted language learning programs can generate error messages to help students in different ways. The article points out that an easier solution is to program a computer to recognize several different kinds of generic errors not related to any particular question but applicable to many situations, in order to generate…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
Rice, Ruth – 1992
Presenting over 200 ready-to-use word games, this book introduces secondary English students of all ability levels to the joy of word play while they practice and review a wide variety of skills, including vocabulary, punctuation, word origins, spelling and pronunciation, grammar and usage, and literary devices. Many of the 5- to 15-minute word…
Descriptors: Educational Games, English, English Instruction, Grammar
Frisof, Kenneth B.; Moseley, James L. – 1982
The prevalence of writing errors made by third-year medical students from the class of 1981 at a large midwestern medical school was studied. The papers of 253 students taking family medicine were evaluated for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Four types of grammar errors and seven punctuation errors were analyzed, and each word…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Higher Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1977
This inventory is designed to enable high school equivalency instructors to profile a student's competencies in the English skills that need to be mastered requisite to passing the General Educational Development (GED) writing skills test. The inventory contains 101 items, tailored specifically item-by-item to 35 skills tested. The skills involve…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs
Argall, Rebecca S. – 1982
With evidence supporting the belief that as a way of decreasing errors sentence combining offers a number of advantages for developmental writing students, a college composition instructor gave 19 developmental writing students five weeks of concentrated sentence combining study with no other instruction or writing practice. The sessions…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation
Smelstor, Marjorie, Ed. – 1978
One of a series of guides to the teaching of writing at the elementary and secondary levels, this publication describes grammar activities that relate to writing activities. The introductory sections define major approaches to grammar, summarize the current state of research on the relation of formal grammar to composition, and suggest behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Crabb, Alfred L., Jr. – Kentucky English Bulletin, 1969
The teacher can stimulate an appreciation of poetry in his students by selecting, reading aloud, and discussing only those poems to which he himself responds strongly. He can also develop students' enjoyment of poetry by encouraging them to bring in their own poetic discoveries and by alerting them to the many possible interpretations of a poem.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Interpretive Reading, Language Patterns, Literature Appreciation
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