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Download full textRienecker, Lotte; Jorgensen, Peter Stray – 2000
This paper profiles the Academic Writing Center at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, which, although influenced by writing centers in American universities, is less dependent on tutorials. The university writing center has only three academicians for 13,000 students, and most of their time is spent teaching how-to-do-it workshops and classes…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Models
Petersen, Lissa – 1995
One professor's motives in organizing writing workshops with panels of faculty members talking in their fields about writing issues were both political and philosophical. As director of the writing center at the Claremont Graduate School, in 1993 she feared that with latest round of budget cuts the writing center was in danger of elimination.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cooperation, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document offers brief lesson plans for four courses: (1) an 8-hour refresher course for employees who write memos, short reports, and letters; (2) an 8-hour refresher course on creating a short document; (3) a 16-hour course on technical manual writing; and (4) an 8-hour course on technical manual writing. The courses were part of a workplace…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Business Correspondence, Technical Writing
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document, developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its partners, offers lists of topics covered in each day of a 24-day course designed to teach General Motors employees the following skills: document information; write clear directions and instructions; outline and organize thoughts and ideas; write memos and business…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Business Correspondence, Manufacturing
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
Holladay, John M.; Zwayer, Sue – 1992
Monroe County Community College (MCCC), in Monroe, Michigan, developed a "Writing Across the Curriculum" program in response to perceived deficiencies in the writing and critical thinking skills of its students. Major features of the program include a Writing Center located in the Learning Assistance Laboratory and Writing Fellows…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, Peer Teaching
