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Johnson, Diane E. – 1980
Designed for use with 38 full-color slides and a cassette tape presentation, this instructional package consists of an instructor's guide and a student activity packet. The instructor's guide includes general instructions for presenting the instructional unit as well as specific instructions for introducing, implementing, and evaluating student…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Correspondence, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Editing
Kunz, Linda Ann; Viscount, Robert R. – 1973
This handbook for teachers and the accompanying student workbook are the basic materials in a course on controlled composition that can be used for on-the-job training, adult education, or as part of a writing course for students at various grade levels. Controlled composition is a program for improving expository writing skills; the program…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Expository Writing, Grammar
Giauque, Gerald S. – 1985
This workbook in French grammar, intended for American college students, provides instruction and practice in French morphology, syntax, vocabulary, punctuation, and language style at the intermediate level. It is also designed to increase or reinforce the students' understanding of English grammar, based on the assumption that American students…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar, Higher Education
Palmer, William S. – California English Journal, 1971
A study in which the patterns and possibilities of free modifiers in the writing habits of three students, who were rated low in language ability, is described. The primary purpose of the study was to determine if complicated syntactic elements used as free modifiers could be lifted from the complex subject of grammar and be presented as…
Descriptors: Context Free Grammar, English Instruction, Grade 10, Grammar
Graves, Donald – Highway One, 1985
Discusses nine orthodoxies, including the idea that spelling, grammar, and punctuation are unimportant, that decrease teacher effectiveness. (DF)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Grammar
Noir, Pascal – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A technique used in an advanced French writing class to encourage student self-correction is described. The technique focused on correction of verbs and their tenses; reduction of repetition; appropriate use of "on" and "nous;" and verification of possessive adjectives, negatives, personal pronouns, spelling, and punctuation.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Error Correction, French
Gregg, Noel – 1983
As a step toward developing appropriate instructional techniques to help learning disabled college students, mechanical errors were compared in the expository essays and controlled stimulus passages (rewrites) of 15 learning disabled, 15 normal, and 15 basic writers at the college level. Analysis of both types of writing samples showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Expository Writing
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1990
Based on two national assessments of the writing proficiency of representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 11 conducted during the school years ending in 1984 and 1988, this report assesses the informative, persuasive, and imaginative writing performance of the nation's students and tracks changes in performance over time. The first…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 11
Barrett, Barrie J.; Musial, Diann – 1981
The writing skills item bank contain 82 objectives each represented by two writing prompts with criteria for holistic scoring. Grade levels covered are one through eight. The objectives deal with aspects of composition such as grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, logic, and creativity. The "items" are writing prompts to which the student…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Carter, Marilyn; And Others – 1985
Intended for students preparing for the General Educational Development (GED) test, this workbook enables them to complete lessons in writing and spelling skills and to take the simulated writing skills tests. The first section contains worksheets on basic writing skills, such as sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation and the use of…
Descriptors: Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing
Parkrose Public Schools, Portland, OR. – 1981
Thirteen curriculum strands that together constitute a framework for competent writing are detailed in this writing program guide. Each strand discussed begins with a statement of the expected learning outcome called a "program goal" and is further organized in a kindergarten through grade 12 sequence with objectives listed for each grade level.…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Cohesion (Written Composition), Course Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Fearn, Leif – 1982
One elementary school writing sample written to cue under a 5-minute time limit was presented to 33 teachers who had been trained to use a holistic and a primary trait writing sample assessment system. Working on the assumption that teachers would recognize mechanical errors on sight, training in mechanical control was limited to orientation…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, English Teacher Education
Scannell, Dale P.; Haugh, Oscar M. – 1968
The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness with which composition skills could be taught by the traditional theme-assignment approach and by an experimental method using weekly multiple-choice composition tests in lieu of theme writing. The weekly tests were based on original but typical first-draft compositions and covered problems…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 10, Grammar, Language Usage

Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This volume of an advanced Russian course designed by the Defense Language Institute seeks to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of the structural features of Russian and an enlarged vocabulary. The learning accomplished orally in class is reinforced in written exercises at home. Instructional materials concentrate on morphology, syntax, and…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Cartoons, Cyrillic Alphabet
Meyer-Myklestad, J. – 1967
This textbook of Modern English combines a diachronic and synchronic approach to present a study of English syntax. The book attaches great importance to precise definitions of the various parts of speech and of their grammatical function, and provides a large number of idiomatic examples to illustrate rules and uses. Historical background is…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)