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Palo, Susan – Writing on the Edge, 1990
Presents an interview with Mike Rose. Explains the source of Rose's interest in the cognitive dimension of writing and how it affects his teaching particularly and classroom instruction generally. Discusses writer's block in terms of cognition. (NH)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Interviews
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Trimmer, Joseph F. – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1999
Presents a transcript of a panel discussion at Colgate University in which people in various professions spoke about their writing experiences in school and on the job. Notes that these stories told by professionals about their writing experiences can be seen as part of an institutional history and part of a disciplinary history. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Writing Assignments
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Alvarez, Julia – English Journal, 1998
Presents the author's (she is a well known poet, essayist, and fiction writer) 10 commandments of writing that portray writing as a moral force, an ethical practice, and also mundane plain and simple hard work. The commandments are in the form of quotes from famous writers. (SR)
Descriptors: Authors, Ethics, Moral Values, Secondary Education
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Dreyer, Dawn K. – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1996
Offers a dialog between two writers, showing the mutual struggle with writing issues, many of them distinct to women, concerning such things as bodies, definitions of revision, and exploring purpose. (TB)
Descriptors: Definitions, Females, Feminism, Revision (Written Composition)
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Dethier, Brock – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2002
Describes how a veteran writer and English teacher who only recently began writing poetry encourages others to invigorate their teaching by taking up a new writing genre. Details the lessons he has learned from poetry and passed on to his own students. Outlines six problems he encountered and presents solutions for each. (SG)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Poetry, Two Year Colleges
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Street, Chris – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005
By drawing upon numerous real-world experiences with reluctant writers, the author illustrates how tapping their interests can lead to improved writing skills and attitudes toward writing. The critical link between identity and writing is emphasized. Though the experiences in this article are drawn from the author's work with basic writers at the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Writing Attitudes, Community Colleges
Campbell-Rush, Peggy – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
In this book, author Peggy Campbell-Rush shares the strategies she relies on to teach young students not only how to read and write, but also to love to read and write. Teachers will find close to 100 tips, ideas, and activities that they can implement immediately, including: the dos and don'ts for reading aloud; putting new twists on tedious…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Campbell, JoAnn – 1992
Meditation is the practice of becoming still--training the mind to slow down. Researchers have acknowledged the "technical" relationship between meditation and writing. Meditation can become part of the writing process, particularly for those who experience writing apprehension, often expressed as procrastination or writer's block.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Consciousness Raising, Higher Education, Meditation
Traver, Warren – Crystal Springs Books, 2004
Make writing less of a task and more of an adventure through this creative and imaginative collection of writing prompts, targeted at grade levels 2 to 5. It provides not only ideas and inspiration, but also motivation. This book includes: (1) Story Headers: single pictures with story titles that kids write about; (2) Every Picture Tells a Story:…
Descriptors: Reprography, Writing (Composition), Elementary Education, Student Motivation
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Hebb, Judith – Journal of Basic Writing, 2002
Notes scholars in composition studies have begun to question the issues of writing in academic discourse communities. Explains college students (particularly basic writers and English-as-a-second-language writers) are only beginning to find acceptable spaces for their alternative writing styles in academia. Concludes if hybrid discourse were…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
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Shenk, Keaton – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Talks about the "writing from the heart" practiced in one sixth-grade classroom by students and teacher, for many different purposes. Describes instructional approaches that encourage such writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Attitudes
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Spinner, Jenny – Writing On the Edge, 2001
Proposes that it is essential for creative nonfiction writers to establish a personal ethics of telling. Contends that it is irresponsible of college writing teachers to allow students to think of classrooms as extended diaries where all that matters is that the student get it down on the page. Concludes that in the end, each writer is accountable…
Descriptors: Essays, Ethics, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
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Bloom, Lynn Z. – Writing On the Edge, 2001
Contends that to tell one's own true story, to write personal creative nonfiction, is to tell other people's true stories as well. Notes that because of an author's insistence on her own perspective, creative nonfiction is not fair, but it is true. Concludes that the primary aim of creative nonfiction is to tell a good story. (PM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Ethics, Higher Education, Nonfiction
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Runciman, Lex – College English, 1991
Maintains that it is correct to acknowledge in scholarly writing journals that writing is hard, often frustrating work, but that the satisfaction of writing also needs to be addressed. Argues that student writers need to be encouraged to discover and even savor the range of large and small rewards which attend their own writing and thinking. (RS)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Periodicals, Scholarly Writing
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Stimson, William – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 1995
Discusses two distinct views on what a quote is: the exact words of a speaker, or a journalist's rewritten or fabricated version of the speaker's words. Argues that paraphrasing allows writers to taint the evidence and causes the loss of the speaker's voice and the loss of credibility and independent corroboration. (SR)
Descriptors: Credibility, Ethics, Higher Education, Journalism
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