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Peer reviewedGoldfine, Ruth – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Outlines detrimental effects of word processing in the composition classroom on planning, reading, organizing, revising, error detection, and spelling and vocabulary skill development. Discusses strategies instructors can use to teach students to use the computer at each stage of the writing process in ways that encourage and develop the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills, Word Processing
Peer reviewedShults, David; Cox, Don Richard – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Offers comments on an article appearing in a recent issue of this journal in which the writer argued that word processing enhances student writing performance. Includes a response by the article's author, Don Richard Cox. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKrauthamer, Helene – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Describes a workshop used with classes doing Web research for their English papers in a computer lab. Shows how this is a good opportunity for students to learn to find, evaluate, and save Web sources, how to read critically and annotate the sources, and how to weave them into working drafts and avoid plagiarism. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, English Instruction, Higher Education
