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Peer reviewedKurth, Anita – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Presents a descriptive exercise, also useful for technical writing, that provides a real reader and a strong sense of the nature of descriptive writing. Students are given sketches of an art piece that they must describe for a museum for identification. (HTH)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, High Schools, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
Peer reviewedDowney, Carol Ann – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes a writing activity in which students imagine how a certain land area can become a world-class tourist attraction. Outlines how the assignment is carried out and its impact on the development of descriptive writing skills. Provides student response to the actual activity. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Essays
Download full textVultaggio, Barbara – 1989
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans offers practical suggestions for developing high school students' writing skills. The 37 lesson plans in this book are divided into four sections: (1) descriptive; (2) audience/voice; (3) expository; and (4) creative. A user's…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
Pitts, Marcella – 1978
The purpose of the proposed study was to examine relationships between instructional characteristics in required high school composition classrooms and quality of writing in one of the four domains included in the curriculum, the imaginative/narrative domain. Questionnaire data were collected on objectives, writing activities, and specific writing…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Educational Objectives, Feedback, High Schools
Estes, Gary D. – 1975
An Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I English/Writing project was continued at two Phoenix Union high schools, Carl Hayden and North High Schools, in 1974-75. Although the objectives and instructional method (individualized, diagnostic, prescriptive approach) were the same at the two schools, the entry level skills and abilities of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing, Direction Writing, English Curriculum
Prater, Doris – 1982
A study was conducted to compare the writing performance of tenth grade students across three modes of discourse. Subjects were 80 students who had been classified as "masters" or "nonmasters" of writing based on their scores on the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills. The students were assigned three…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Descriptive Writing, Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing
Saint Louis Park Public Schools, Minn. – 1967
The aim of this course for grades 10-12 is to develop in students their command of language through their use of it. It tries to guide the student through the actual process of composition, avoiding the treatment of the pre-writing stage and the writer's situation. The instruction material is divided into six categories (Conciseness and Clarity,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Descriptive Writing, Diction
