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Peer reviewedKing, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
Peer reviewedWilliams, Jerri Knowlton – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Considers how writing teachers can help students become more inventive writers. Gives different techniques for developing invention skills. Outlines an approach for fostering invention in writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Essays, Expository Writing
Peer reviewedDowney, Carol Ann – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes a writing activity in which students imagine how a certain land area can become a world-class tourist attraction. Outlines how the assignment is carried out and its impact on the development of descriptive writing skills. Provides student response to the actual activity. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Essays
