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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
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
Greene, Ghussan R. – 1995
The location of a university writing center is not as important as whether the faculty responsible for the center have a clear picture of how they would like the center to be viewed by the students. A campus writing center should be the hub of all academic writing across the campus. For one instructor, the first lab he developed at a small college…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
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
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
Burley, Hansel – 1994
A study was conducted in spring 1991, spring 1993, and summer 1993 to determine the effect on the writing process of various types of word processing software used by developmental and second-level composition students. Analyses were conducted of developmental students (novice writers) and of composition students (above novice writers) at a Texas…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
