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Westervelt, Lisa – 1998
This study had three objectives: (1) to examine and describe factors that help to create a positive attitude toward learning; (2) to examine and describe factors that led to students' participation in the process-oriented approach; and (3) to examine and describe perceptions and experiences that students had involving the process-oriented…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Process Approach (Writing)
Lewis, Richard, Ed. – Touchstone Center Journal, 1997
This second issue of a new journal presents six essays all on the theme of the imagination. New programming at the Touchstone Center has begun to focus on the importance of finding new forums for reflecting upon the place of the imagination in people's lives. The essays in this issue come from presenters in recent public lectures and workshops…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Fantasy, Higher Education, Imagery
Gomer, Judith R. – 1992
A practicum addressing the problems of low motivation and poor writing quality of 50 underachieving 9th-grade basic skills students is described in this report. The objectives were to increase motivation among the students and to improve the quality of their essay writing. Peer tutoring was used as a method for encouraging students to help each…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grade 9, High Risk Students, High Schools
Procter, Margaret – 1992
A faculty member at the University of Toronto (Ontario) developed an informal survey designed to assess her undergraduate students' views of the writing they did during the course of their university studies. The survey consisted of a 2-page questionnaire that could be completed in 5 to 10 minutes; it was administered to 722 students during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Goetz, Donna – 1990
An ongoing study evaluated the effectiveness of a writing across the curriculum (WAC) program at a small liberal arts college. Fifty-five out of 99 full-time faculty responded to a survey seeking to compare WAC faculty who had voluntarily participated in at least a 3-day workshop to faculty not involved in the WAC program. Pre- and post-workshop…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Evaluation
Kelly, Priscilla – 1991
Creative writing has fallen out of favor with teachers of composition because they have tended to link creative writing to the belletristic tradition of the nineteenth century. But if the nineteenth century can be accused of taking invention out of the writing process, as many scholars have asserted, it is possible to assert that the twentieth…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Heuristics, Higher Education
Howell, Charles – 1991
A case study of a senior in mechanical engineering was undertaken to test the hypothesis that rhetorical theory can help students make sense of specialized discourse. The essay the subject finally produced concerning the rhetorical features in a technical engineering paper extended the claim she made at the beginning of the study: the text of the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Higher Education, Professional Education
Brooke, Robert E. – 1991
Drawing on findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology, this book examines motivation for writing and connects writing with the roles each person plays--in the family, the workplace, and in social and cultural groups including school--and with the lifelong search for potential new roles. As a blueprint for changing the writing of college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Role, Writing Assignments
Bishop, Wendy – 1990
Writing instructors and students alike need to cross the line between composition and creative writing far more often than they do. As students indicate in their essays, composition is often viewed as an unpleasant task, while creative writing is perceived as more enjoyable. Among teachers, creative writing instructors are phobic of critical…
Descriptors: College English, Creative Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Takagaki, Toshiyuki – 2002
This study examined the writing profiles of three Japanese writers with distinctly different writing experiences, investigating participants' school writing experiences and attitudes toward writing, characteristics of the composing process, and teaching implications. The three Japanese participants included an experienced writer in both Japanese…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Japanese
Koulourianos, Eleni; Marienau, Vickie – 2001
This study describes strategies used to increase student confidence in their overall writing achievement. The targeted population consists of third and fifth grade students from the same district located in a northwest suburban area. This community is located near a large metropolitan city in a midwestern state. Lack of confidence in student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5
Calhoun, Sean; Haley, Jennifer – 2003
This report describes a program for improving writing skills through choices of structured and unstructured writing process. The purpose of this program is to increase their ability to produce quality writing as measured by the district's fourth grade writing rubric. The targeted population consisted of an average fourth grade class, located in a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness
Islam, Chhanda – 1999
A study was conducted to determine and compare the literacy beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices of early childhood educators who espouse emergent literacy and reading readiness philosophies; to explore the relationship among beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices; and to examine the degree to which beliefs, knowledge bases, and practices were…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Godsey, Sherry B. – 2000
A teacher in a rural high school in East Tennessee observed that her high school advanced English students would readily agree to writing journal entries as long as they were allowed to use word processing software. In the past, students had bemoaned the daily ritual of journal writing using pencil and paper. The teacher wanted to find out if…
Descriptors: Action Research, Comparative Analysis, English Instruction, High Schools
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC. – 1998
This brochure for parents reflects the position statement "Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children," jointly issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the International Reading Association (IRA). The brochure discusses ten simple suggestions for parents…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Materials, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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