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Direct linkPerez, Tony; Gregory, Kristen H.; Baker, Peter B. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
We pilot tested an identity-based relevance-writing intervention designed to support developmental community college students' (N = 54) educational commitment, value, and persistence. The intervention was embedded within regular journal assignments in two study skills courses with a third section serving as a comparison group. The intervention…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Intervention
Lockhart Sigman, Aungeto Ditze – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this action research study was to determine the impact of project-based learning on the writing, communication and interpersonal skills of students in a college skills course. This course was required for students who were enrolled in at least one or more developmental courses. The purpose of this course was to equip the students…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Assignments, Writing Skills
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
