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Andrea A. Berta – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2018
This article describes the development and iterations of the English 0111 Composition Workshop-the Texas Success Initiative (TSI), at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The TSI is a program that determines college-readiness standards in reading, writing, and math. The initial structure of English 0111 was similar to the structure used in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Required Courses, College English
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Miller, Myriah T.; Olthouse, Jill – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2013
This comparative study identified the differences between gifted children's offline and online peer feedback within a summer talented writer's workshop. Researchers analyzed ten students' writings for degrees of critical thinking evident in their feedback. Online feedback included students' writings in social writing sites Storybird.com and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Gifted, Feedback (Response), Differences
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Moore-Hart, Margaret A. – Reading Teacher, 2005
At a writers' camp, teachers and children collaboratively write and learn together during the summer. Through student writing samples, this article shows how teachers and students apply journalistic techniques of observing, note-taking, and interviewing to collect information about their local community. Teachers and children taking part in the…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Writing Workshops, Writing (Composition), Experience
Roberts, David H., Ed.; Swoger, Peggy A., Ed. – 1991
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1991. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members and daily logs written in by participants in a wide variety…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Poetry
National Writing Project (NJ3), 2007
This brochure makes a case for devoting more attention to writing, and demonstrates through recent research results that the National Writing Project (NWP) has had a positive impact on teachers and students across the country. Independent national scorings of student writing show that NWP student improvement out paces that of students in carefully…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Improvement, Writing Instruction, Program Evaluation
Roberts, David H., Ed.; And Others – 1992
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1992. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members and daily logs written in by participants in a wide variety…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship
Roberts, David H., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1994. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members. Summaries of 14 presentations (on such topics as…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Bias, Civil War (United States), Elementary Secondary Education
Roberts, David H., Ed.; Lebow, Jeanne, Ed. – 1986
This anthology presents materials associated with the five-week summer session of the South Mississippi Writing Project, 1986. The anthology begins with a position statement on teaching writing, and curriculum vitae of staff and teacher consultants followed by lists of group and committee members and a calendar of events in the session. Summaries…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Humor, Journalism Education
Root, Robert L., Jr.; Steinberg, Michael – 1996
Based on a series of seven summer workshops on creative writing and pedagogy, this book offers an "inside-out" approach to teaching and writing, an approach that teachers can use for personal growth and self-enrichment as well as for application and inspiration in their public school classrooms. Essays in the book are: (1) "'The Writing's for Us':…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English Teachers