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Peer reviewedDick, John A. R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews over 50 textbooks grouped into three categories: (1) workbooks; (2) sentence style books, most of which use sentence combining as the fundamental type of exercise; and (3) copy books, which are used by directly copying passages with signals for particular changes. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Evaluation, Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPeterson, Sarah E. – Computers in the Schools, 1993
Examines the effects of word processing on high school seniors' writing and revisions of essay assignments. Length of papers, the impact of topic on the results, the effect of handwriting papers after computer composition, comparison of writing methods over time, and effects of typing ability and computer experience are discussed. (Contains eight…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Expository Writing, Grade 12
Download full textJaniszewski, Kathryn; Permut, Cathy – 1994
This set of learning modules was developed during a project to deliver workplace literacy instruction to individuals employed in the more than 50 businesses related to the activities of the Port of Baltimore. It is intended to prepare students for the Customs Brokers examination within a 6-week course period. Actual material from past Customs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Content Area Reading, Functional Literacy
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1983
A sampling of over 100 ideas submitted by elementary school teachers at the Idea Exchange at the annual meetings of the National Council of Teachers of English are contained in this collection of teaching tips. The first chapter, "Getting to Know Each Other," includes games to help students learn each other's names, directions for making a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Grammar
Hook, J. N. – 1972
Intended to inform both the new and the experienced English teacher about the present state of knowledge in the field, this textbook is also addressed to students preparing to teach English language and literature in junior and senior high schools. The book stresses application rather than theory, presenting specific classroom procedures drawn…
Descriptors: English, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Education
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
This revised collection is presented in a new format. Each objective consists of stating the general objective, giving directions, sample items, and answers. Objectives covering a wide range of writing problems are included emphasizing the improvement of clarity in expression. The text is divided into two categories: Mechanics and Usage. There are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Guides, Diction
Peer reviewedHull, Glynda – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Inexperienced writers, including both basic writers and learning disabled, commit errors that often follow a discernible pattern due to applying erroneous or incomplete rules. Techniques for teaching editing skills are described, including textual analyses of students' writing, interviews with students, structuring the editing task, and providing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Keeler, Sandy – 1986
This guide is intended for use in helping students master the language arts skills necessary to pass the writing skills portion of the General Educational Development examination. It could also be used in adult basic education classes. The following topics are covered in the individual units: capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, subject-verb…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adult Basic Education, Adverbs, Basic Skills
Lotz, John – 1972
This booklet forms a part of the Hungarian-English Contrastive Linguistics Project which is concerned with investigating the differences and similarities between these two languages with implications for second language acquisition. The papers here deal with the Hungarian writing system. Initial remarks concern the relationship between script and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
PIERSON, HOWARD – 1967
RECENT RESEARCH WOULD SEEM TO IMPLY THAT THE RESULT OF INTENSIVE TEACHER-CORRECTION OF STUDENT COMPOSITION DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE EFFORT. IF TEACHER-CORRECTION DOES NOT PRODUCE THE IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENT COMPOSITION, PERHAPS PEER-CORRECTION WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE. A REVIEW OF THE FEW PERTINENT STUDIES INDICATES THAT PEER-CORRECTION IS AT LEAST AS…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, College Students, English Instruction
Hawkinson, Bruce – 1976
This teacher's guide accompanies ten mini-manuals which provide business and office students with instruction in the following areas: word division; subject and verb agreement; plurals and possessives; commas, dashes, and parentheses; periods, questions, exclamations, and semicolons; capitalization; numbers; spelling; other punctuation; and…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Business Education, Business English, Capitalization (Alphabetic)
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1985
Developed to increase student ability to communicate effectively in a growing range of situations, this kindergarten through grade eight writing and speaking program is based on clusters of instructional and performance objectives for each grade level. The guide begins with a discussion of the goals of education, a point of view about language…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Ballator, Nada; Farnum, Marisa; Kaplan, Bruce – 1999
Supplementary to "NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress," this report describes two aspects of writing for which change has been measured since 1984: writing fluency as determined by holistic scoring; and mastery of the conventions of written English as determined by mechanics scoring. The introduction discusses the layout and means of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 4
Kelly, Eileen; And Others – 1994
This paper discusses the development of a criterion-referenced assessment measure for both written English and American Sign Language (ASL) that can be used with deaf elementary through secondary students. The measure is presented as well as the results of a trial use. Developed by the Cleary School for the Deaf, the Cleary Language Assessment…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Check Lists, Criterion Referenced Tests, Deafness
Huggins, Kenneth – 1989
This curriculum is designed for adult learners in the workplace whose reading and writing skills have never been developed as much as desired or whose skills have atrophied. The overall goal is to bring these learners to a level approximately equivalent to the end of 12th grade. This volume contains four of the nine modules in the curriculum; a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Blue Collar Occupations
