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Download full textMercer 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
Hocking, Joan; Visniesky, Cheryl – 1983
The incorporation of microcomputers into the traditional English classroom is currently in a transitional phase. Each new use of the computer affords teachers new possibilities for teaching approaches, and the succession of uses already employed suggests that each experiment increases the distance from traditional methods. This can be illustrated…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Lally, Tim D. P.; And Others – 1983
Once its source has been identified using the multidimensional model developed by D. W. Stacks, R. W. Boozer, and T. D. P. Lally, writing apprehension, especially among business writing students, can be treated in the classroom with specific pedagogical techniques. Emphasizing the writing process rather than the product--stressing peer and teacher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Prewriting, Sentence Combining
Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield, Ca. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1980
One of a series of activity guides, this publication offers a variety of learning activities and resource materials to help teachers and students celebrate special days and events in autumn. The activities and resources are especially designed to develop communications skills of students in grades 4-8; however, they are easily transferable to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Alvermann, Donna E.; Boothby, Paula R. – 1984
Recognizing that children's spontaneous use of text structure facilitates their comprehension of expository prose, a study examined the transfer effects of graphic organizer instruction on 24 fourth grade students' ability to use top-level structure in the comprehension and recall of new content area material. Subjects were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Graphic Organizers, Intermediate Grades
Jacobson, Jeanne M. – 1989
The advantages of using journals in the college classroom are their versatility and their transferability to teaching at every level. Three types of journal writing are very effective in engaging students in purposeful, repeated writing: individual journals in which student and teacher maintain a written dialogue throughout the course; class…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Expository Writing, Group Activities
Walker, Bernard A., Ed.; Klein, Dorothy, Ed. – 1988
Along with its companion teacher's guide, this student study text teaches writing skills needed to pass the New York Regents Competency Test (RCT) in Writing, using the computer as an instrument of instruction. The guide is arranged in three sections that match the tasks required on the RCT Writing Test: (1) The Business Letter; (2) The Report;…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, High Schools
Taylor, William M. – 1987
Five writing assignments, geared to the content of a community college course on international relations, are presented. The first four assignments deal with specific critical reading skills: (1) distinguishing fact from opinion; (2) analyzing the author's point of view; (3) detecting fallacies; and (4) comparing and contrasting articles which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Ford, Michael P. – 1990
A graduate reading course provided students a hands-on experience in using dialog journals with elementary school children to illustrate the value of integrating writing opportunities into reading programs. Every week of the semester reading methods students read, responded, and returned the journals to the cooperating elementary classes. Only…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Interschool Communication
Lamb, Holly; Best, Diane L. – 1990
It is proposed that through the use of whole language techniques, an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teacher can incorporate holistic language situations into the ESL classroom and advance the student's acquisition of a second language. Whole language techniques such as spontaneous conversation, brainstorming with semantic maps, dialogue…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Dialog Journals
Tchudi, Stephen N.; Tchudi, Susan J. – 1983
The first in a series on content area writing instruction, this booklet is intended for elementary school teachers who have taught writing, but who want to move into content writing topics and for teachers who are novices at teaching writing but who think content writing instruction might be an important skill to teach their students. The three…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Huse-Inman, Kathy – 1980
Designed to provide an alternative to the book report, this booklet presents ideas for students to use in responding to books they have read. These ideas may help to get students to react to their reading, to stretch their minds, to learn to think as independent human beings, and to use their imaginations in experiencing literature. The 152 ideas…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Activities
Luesebrink, Marjorie; And Others – 1986
Designed to be used as a reference and guide for students enrolled in the CompuEnglish Program at Saddleback College North (SCN) in California, this workbook introduces word processing skills that can be used to write better compositions for English and other classes. The workbook contains a copy of the syllabus used in SCN's Freshman Composition…
Descriptors: College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Martin, Anne – 1981
Methods of eliciting writing from children are explored in this monograph, which includes samples of nine- and ten-year-old students' writing. The monograph offers four recommendations for improving writing skills: make writing a daily activity; take children's writing seriously; maintain flexible standards of form and language; and identify group…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Grade 4
Wright, Anne – 1986
The use of microcomputers as word processors for writing papers is commonplace in English departments, but there are many less well-known uses that English teachers can make of the computer. For example, word processing programs can be used to teach sentence combining. Moving text on the screen is very easy, so it is possible to rearrange words or…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Materials, Microcomputers
