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Download full textBritish Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1978
This resource package has been prepared as a means for distributing not only the results of the 1978 British Columbia Assessment of Written Expression but also to provide educators with clear, well-organized, classroom-ready materials which will assist them in teaching and evaluating the skills of written expression. It contains all of the test…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Brent, Douglas – 1982
The latest perceptions of writer-audience relationships have not been applied to what teachers actually do in the classroom. When the idea of audience is applied at all, it is often misapplied, resulting in classroom activities that fail to facilitate learning and many, in some cases, that force students to perform tasks so unreal that credibility…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models
Mellon, John C. – 1981
Sentence combining is one kind of practice activity, quite specific in character, aimed at teaching syntactic fluency and judgment and the use of the devices of cohesion. Students can be led through the revision process step by step by converting the odd essay from real writing to a practice exercise, then actually providing the content needed for…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education, Secondary Education, Sentence Combining
Spurgeon, Kristene C. – 1981
Perhaps because the United States is undergoing a video revolution, perhaps because of its increasing sales of goods to non-English speaking markets where graphics can help explain the products, perhaps because of the decreasing communication skills of the work force, graphic aids are becoming more and more widely used and more and more important.…
Descriptors: Flow Charts, Graphic Arts, Graphs, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationGorrell, Donna K. – 1979
Controlled composition--a method closely related to sentence combining--can be beneficial for college students whose writing is characterized by frequent errors and lack of fluency. Controlled composition consists of copying short, competently written compositions exactly except for certain stipulated changes. The assignments, which progress in…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Sentence Combining
Hayes, Mary F. – 1980
Integrating reading theory and instructional techniques into the composition classroom helps students improve both their reading and writing skills. Students should be evaluated early by combining diagnostic samples of their reading and writing to determine their ability to recognize organizational relationships and their facility with reading…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Instruction
DRISKILL, WALTER E.; AND OTHERS – 1963
SEVERAL STUDIES ON THE QUESTION OF OVERT VERSUS COVERT RESPONSES WERE REVIEWED. OF THE 10 STUDIES DISCUSSED, FIVE SUPPORTED THE POSITION OF OVERT RESPONSE. THE OTHERS SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESPONSE MODES EXCEPT THAT LEARNING EFFICIENCY WAS LOWER IN THE OVERT RESPONSE CONDITION IN COMPARISON WITH THE COVERT AND READING…
Descriptors: Covert Response, Educational Technology, Learning Activities, Linear Programing
Mettelka, K. A. – 1980
Frequently, writing students are so concerned with correct grammar and mechanics that their essays are stilted and dry. Their writing is further hampered by rhetorical formulas that describe what the structure of the essay should be when it is finished but not how to go about writing it. Can poetic invention strategies help produce better essays?…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
Boone, Beth; Hill, Ada S. – 1980
The needs hierarchy developed by Abraham Maslow lends itself to the composition classroom. The hierarchy depicts five distinct need levels through which an individual travels: basic, safety/security, belonging/peer acceptance, ego/esteem, and self-actualization. From teacher observations and students' comments, need levels can be assessed and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Spigelmire, Lynne – 1979
Exploratory problem solving that utilizes self-educating techniques such as the evaluation of feedback to improve performance can be put to use in the composition classroom. Quantitatively evaluated prewriting exercises can help students in two ways: first, students learn to use procedures that can prepare them for more sophisticated devices;…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Smelstor, Marjorie, Ed. – 1979
The dramatic performance and writing activities in this guide are applicable to all grade levels and content areas. Methods are suggested for selecting material for oral interpretation and dramatics, and specific student activities are listed in the following areas: monologue, dialogue, and conversation; oral reading of prose, poetry, and drama,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Drama, Dramatics, Elementary Secondary Education
Rose, Mike – 1979
An examination of the written products and writing situations of a university reveals that virtually all of these writing tasks call for exposition, which further breaks down into the five components of seriation, classification, synthesis, compare/contrast, and analysis. These five components of expositional discourse form a set of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Guides, Descriptive Writing, English Curriculum
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1977
Current research in reading indicates that what the reader brings to the printed page is far more important to comprehension than the information appearing there. This paper presents a model of how the integration of reading and writing skills can be undertaken, thereby strengthening both skill areas. With selections from a literary text and a…
Descriptors: Kernel Sentences, Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Baker, William Henry – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a letter-evaluation method would be as effective as the traditional letter-writing method when applied in a college level business correspondence class. One hundred twenty-nine Brigham Young University students were divided into two experimental and two control groups, and categorized according to…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business English, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Trithart, Lee; And Others – 1972
Level 2 of the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Composition Skills Program is designed to help children achieve writing fluency and elementary punctuation skills. This report describes the results of the 1971-1972 developmental tryouts of the program in a wide range of school locations. Data obtained from the tryout corroborated data obtained…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
