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Peer reviewedLundy, Jo – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes a writing assignment (useful for junior high through college age students) that seeks to improve students' descriptive writing through a set of class writing assignments using visual and concrete objects. Allows students to gain awareness, gain knowledge and discuss it, and ask questions as a body of learners rather than in isolation.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJames, Gomer – English Journal, 1987
Describes a writing assignment that uses the song "America the Beautiful" to point the following six reasons why America is beautiful: skies, mountains, grain, Pilgrims, heroes, and dreams. (NKA)
Descriptors: Assignments, Descriptive Writing, Grade 10, North American Culture
Writing as a Process of Discovery: Some Structured Theme Assignments for Grades Five Through Twelve.
Jenkinson, Edward B.; Seybold, Donald A. – 1970
To help students understand the processes by which they should gather, organize, and write material for an assigned theme, this book presents a series of steps for students to follow as well as some specific guidelines for composition teachers. Theme assignments, procedural steps, sample themes, and questions for classroom discussion are provided…
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiences, Descriptive Writing, Discovery Learning
