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Peer reviewedTimmons, Theresa Cullen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Indicates that using highlighters to mark errors produced a 76% class improvement in removing comma errors and a 95.5% improvement in removing apostrophe errors. Outlines two teaching procedures, to be followed before introducing this tool to the class, that enable students to remove errors at this effective rate. (JD)
Descriptors: Editing, Instructional Materials, Punctuation, Revision (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedBurkholder, Robert – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Details the use of the manuscripts, journals, and published works of Emerson and Thoreau as a means of teaching revision to composition students. (FL)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPufahl, John P. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1986
Shows how basic writing students' knowledge of how to use the computer to produce new, revised drafts of their essays in approximately an hour led to their productive use of word processing. (EL)
Descriptors: College English, Computer Assisted Instruction, English Instruction, Learning Processes
