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Toglia, Thomas V. – Tech Directions, 2004
Sooner or later, every educator hears the following plea from a current or former student: "Will you write a letter of recommendation for me?" Usually, the student is seeking employment or applying to a college or university for additional education. Many times instructors--taken off guard and unprepared for these requests--find themselves staring…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Teacher Student Relationship, Letters (Correspondence), Writing (Composition)
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In, Fan-yu – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
Basic English Writing (BEW) courses have been part of English learning curricula in many universities. Some research has been conducted to investigate various class designs for English language courses. However, class designs for English writing are not yet abundantly developed to provide more experimental results. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Basic Writing, College Seniors
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Rochwerger, Leonora – Voices from the Middle, 2006
Teacher educator and researcher Peterson works with eighth-grade science teacher, Rochwerger, who believes that writing is a learning tool that will enable her students to become scientifically literate. Here, we see this belief played out through an action research project that found students using a genre of their choice to write about what they…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Programs, Teacher Educators, Science Fiction
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Reid, Robert; Lienemann, Torri Ortiz – Exceptional Children, 2006
Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk of academic difficulties and special education placement (Barkley, 1998). One academic area, written expression, has received little research attention. This study assessed the effectiveness of a validated strategy instruction model--Self-Regulated Strategy…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Self Management, Writing Instruction
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Li, Linda Y. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
Focused freewriting, broadly defined as writing without stopping and editing about a specific topic, has been viewed and used as a powerful tool for developing student writing in a wide spectrum of educational contexts. This study aimed to further explore the use of focused freewriting in the context of promoting students' academic skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Academic Discourse
Donahue, Tiane – Writing Instructor, 2007
This article describes the preliminary exploratory process used to develop the research questions that will be addressed during a project to be offered in the 2005-2006 academic year. The project will bring together Maine high school and college faculty to learn from each other about shared needs, methods and priorities, in a year long series of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, College Faculty, Secondary School Teachers, College Freshmen
Blau, Susan R. – 1995
Classrooms are filled with students with confident and vibrant voices, and most educators encourage them to use these voices in their writing. Many of the strategies of the process-centered classroom (peer editing, conferences, workshops, in-house publishing) also encourage students to write in real voices to real readers; however, there is still…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Advertising, Audience Awareness, Higher Education
LaMascus, R. Scott – 1995
Television commercials and print ads have proven to be an effective means of introducing composition students to strategies for analysis and writing. They rely heavily on the eye to interpret images quickly according to fairly reliable habits. They are naturally occurring forms of argument and students have substantial intuitive competence with…
Descriptors: Advertising, Higher Education, Mass Media, Persuasive Discourse
Fredericksen, Elaine – 1996
Composition teachers and researchers recognize the difficulty young writers, especially females, face as they enter postsecondary education and attempt to learn the language of the academy. Addressing academic audiences "takes confidence and authority, qualities that are often challenged in women because of their historical exclusion from and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Females, Feminism, Freshman Composition
Ostrom, Hans – 1996
This paper asks what role "play" plays in writing and how it can help a writer, whatever dread, boredom, skill, or ethnicity he/she brings to writing. Some of the ideas in the paper come from Africa, courtesy of Robert Farris Thompson. In his "philosophy of discourse" discussed in the paper, Thompson speaks of the "big…
Descriptors: African Culture, Higher Education, Self Expression, Student Attitudes
Wiener, Harvey S. – 1994
Intended to be a practical and useful guide to tapping a child's imagination and turning it into a creative tool for using language for pleasure, this book offers helpful hints for parents who want to work with their children on communication skills. The book presents a step-by-step program that is easy, flexible, and applicable in any home. It…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Grammar, Independent Study
Grow, Gerald – 1995
Deliberately writing badly can be an effective way to learn to write better because knowing when writing is bad is an essential element in knowing when it's good. There are distinct advantages to encouraging students to learn the rules by breaking them. Deliberately doing it wrong removes the threat of failure. Students are playing; they are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Humor, Journalism, Layout (Publications)
Inkster, Robert P. – 1992
The notion of "Personal Writing" has come under sustained attack from several different directions and for a variety of reasons, yet it is a concept that still retains usefulness for writing instructors. One problem with personal writing is that frequently students do not like it or feel it invades their privacy, despite the traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Moral Development, Moral Values, Personal Narratives
Kirsch, Gesa E. – 1993
Based on extensive interviews, this book investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers in the university. The book focuses on: (1) the writing strategies of 35 women from 5 different disciplines (anthropology, education, history, nursing, and psychology) and 4 academic ranks (seniors,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, College Faculty, College Students
Adams, Arlene – 1999
Aiming to make the literacy tutoring task as easy and effective as possible, this guidebook presents a set of strategies that tutors can implement immediately as they begin to work with students and provides enough information about the elements of literacy learning and effective instruction so tutors can make sensible decisions about the best…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Process Approach (Writing), Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
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