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Oates, Rita Haugh – Quill and Scroll, 1987
Reviews several software packages that analyze text readability, check for spelling and style problems, offer desktop publishing capabilities, teach interviewing skills, and teach grammar using a computer game. (SRT)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
Cridlig, Jean-Marie – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
A typology of classroom exercises according to the functions they serve in teaching textual and discourse competence and focusing more on the text than on the sentence is proposed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cohesion (Written Composition), French
Quible, Zane K. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2004
This article used a writing sample that contained 27 sentence-level errors of the type found by corporate America to be annoying and bothersome. Five categories of errors were included in the sample: grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing style, and business communication concepts. Students in a written business communication course were asked…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns, Sentences
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar. – 1994
This partial proceedings contains papers presented at the fifth annual conference of the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on the topic of learning, teaching, and researching grammar. Papers in the proceedings are: "Using Grammatical Information to Make Rhetorical Points (Wanda Van Goor); "Grammar with a Purpose: Using Grammar…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Grammar
Hawkinson, Bruce – 1976
One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication proofreading, this booklet for business and office students provides instruction in the use of apostrophes, quotes, italics, hyphens, brackets, ellipsis dots, leader dots, bullets, superscripts, and subscripts. Included are terminal and specific objectives, punctuation rules and related…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Business English, Clerical Workers
Weaver, Constance – 1979
Intended for preservice and inservice teachers at all educational levels, but especially for those in English education classes, this book examines the foundations of grammar instruction and supplies some definitions and examples of grammar usage. Part one of the book explores relevant language research, reasons for teaching grammar, the…
Descriptors: English Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Research
Clackamas Community Coll., Oregon City, OR. – 1992
This curriculum guide, almost entirely in Spanish, outlines adult basic education course content to be taught in a Spanish-language high school equivalency program. The course is designed to help students prepare for the General Educational Development (G.E.D.) exam in written expression. The guide begins with a Spanish skills placement test.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs, Instructional Materials
Evans, Janet, Ed. – 2001
This book presents 15 essays that consider writing development from many different angles, creating a collage that focuses on how to help students develop into competent writers. The first section of the book consists of four chapters on how to support young writers. In the second section, the essays explore how a variety of issues influence…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Grammar

Devlin, Frank – Writing Center Journal, 1996
Examines two studies: one that shows that competent to highly competent writers find writing centers beneficial, and the other that shows that faculty continue to think of writing centers as suited to remedial students and surface level corrections. Attempts to glean from these studies important information that could act as a corrective to all…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Remedial Instruction
Halverson, Jim – 1996
Drawing on a program used successfully in the classroom for 20 years, this book presents 15 reproducible skills lessons that teach students in grades 4 through 8 essential grammar rules in an engaging, meaningful way. The book uses games, puzzles, mazes, and model sentences that tell amusing stories while teaching rules. Units in the book cover…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Grammar, Intermediate Grades
George, D'Ann Pletcher – 1995
It is a commonly held assumption that Harvard-trained rhetoricians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were concerned mainly with superficial mechanical correction, and, further, that they dissociated student writing from any meaningful context and contributed to the division between composition and literature. Howard James Savage was…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
Stott, Michael – 1994
This German language textbook is intended for classroom use. The theme of the text relates to the Renaissance, and the narrative is based on Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" (1516) and relates to the experiences of its central character Raphael among the inhabitants of the strange island. Each chapter touches lightly on some thought provoking…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geography
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1987
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered a writing task to nationally representative samples of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students in order to assess their abilities to use the conventions of written English. Approximately 2,000 students at each age level completed this task as part of NAEP's 1984 writing assessment.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Heidary, Farhood; And Others – 1984
The validity of the Training Benefit Forecasting Method (TBFM) was studied in a Grammar and Punctuation Program conducted at Onan Corporation. The target population was composed of 10 workers who handled the document production in the organization's word processing center. Based on information gathered from the course instructor, participants, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Grammar
Astacio, Ramon E.; Andrade, Magdalena – 1973
This publication presents four suggested language arts curriculum units designed to be used with high school students in first- or second-year Spanish classes who are native speakers of the language. The first unit, which deals with the Spanish alphabet, is meant to be used as an introduction to the Spanish language. The second and third units,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Guides, Grammar