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Discovering Voice through Multimodal Writing: An Anti-Racist Model for Writing Instructors
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Benita Charla Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation contributes to the growing body of scholarship in rhetoric and composition responding to calls for explicitly anti-racist teaching and research practices. Titular examples of the field's widespread commitment to this work include official "Position Statements" by our flagship professional organizations, like the…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Social Justice, Racism
Journalism, Poetry, Stand-Up Comedy, and Academic Literacy: Mapping the Interplay of Curricular and Extracurricular Literate Activities
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Roozen, Kevin – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
In an effort to live up to Elaine Richardson's dictum that educators and researchers must address "the total linguistic, cultural, and historical background of the learner" (19), basic writing scholarship has addressed a wealth of competencies that basic writers bring with them to the university. The literate lives they lead beyond the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Case Studies
Learning to Write in the Secondary School: How and Where.
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Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – English Journal, 1981
Reports the highlights of the first year of the National Study of Secondary School Writing, which provides new information about secondary school writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Secondary Education
Seven Reasons Why Children Should Write Stories.
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Tompkins, Gail E. – Language Arts, 1982
Writing researchers suggest that children should write stories in order to (1) entertain, (2) foster artistic expression, (3) explore the functions and values of writing, (4) stimulate imagination, (5) clarify thinking, (6) search for identity, and (7) learn to read and write. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Creative Writing
Almost a Game: Enabling Restrictions in Sentence Variety Exercises
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Hunley, Tom C. – College Teaching, 2003
A sentence variety exercise, used to help student writers consciously consider and control the lengths and types of sentences in their essays, is discussed. Students revised paragraphs according to the method and reflected on whether they found the exercise useful in improving their writing. Reactions were mixed, although most students were able…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Making Thinking Visible: Writing, Collaborative Planning, and Classroom Inquiry.
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Flower, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Surveying a project that was conducted through the Center for the Study of Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, this book details the classroom inquiries conducted during the 4-year project (1988-1992) by 33 teacher-researchers from secondary and postsecondary classrooms. The articles and their authors are: (1) "Teachers as Theory…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
The Los Altos Writing Project.
Kraft, Richard F. – 1986
The intent of this guide is to encourage teachers to have students write, both formally and informally, on a systematic basis. Three types of writing are emphasized: (1) journal writing; (2) research paper writing; and (3) essay writing. The section on journal writing includes a handout for the class explaining the purpose for journal writing and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing, Curriculum Guides