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The Writing Skills Workshop: Not a Laboratory
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Beck, Paula – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1976
Describes a peer method of teaching writing at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. (RB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions
Peer Tutors as a Source of Power for Basic Writers.
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Cobb, Loretta; Elledge, Elaine K. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Focuses on how writing center directors can use the resource of peer tutors and discusses the rationale for, the selection of, and the evaluation of tutor applicants. (AEA)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching
A Grab-Bag of Diagnostic Techniques.
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Harris, Muriel – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1983
Describes several diagnostic tools used to determine specific problems of students referred to a writing lab, including structured interviews, protocols (asking a student to compose aloud for 15 to 20 minutes on a short topic), and back-pedaling (questioning what a student already knows about a given topic). (AEA)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Individualization and Remedial Writing: A Perspective.
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Duke, Charles R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Advocates individualizing remedial writing courses at the college level and describes three programs that emphasize individual placement, focus on student writing rather than on workbook materials, and offer peer tutoring. (MKM)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Learning Laboratories, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions