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King, Don – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes assignments that integrate ideas from student journals into expository and deliberate essays. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Expository Writing, Heuristics
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Tsujimoto, Joseph I. – English Journal, 1984
Describes various revising operations that allow students to genuinely re-see their work in order to revise effectively. (CRH)
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education
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Carpender, Carol; Trippensee, James – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Presents a theoretical model of the writing process and suggests having students create a picture collage as an introduction to the various roles and stages in the writing process. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Decoding (Reading), Higher Education
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Clifford, John – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
Process and collaboration were blended into a pedagogy called collaborative composing in this experimental inquiry that tested the hypothesis that an instructional method that divides the composing process into discrete stages in a collaborative environment will improve writing performance. (HOD)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, College English, College Freshmen, Higher Education
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Bodmer, Paul – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Describes a journal writing activity designed to engage students in the exchange between text and reader. Argues that informal writing in a journal is a means of letting students find out that, if they engage themselves with a text, they will find it interesting. (RS)
Descriptors: Free Writing, Journal Writing, Prewriting, Reader Response
McKenzie, Robert G.; Roit, Marsha L. – Academic Therapy, 1988
As an orientation to the actual composition process, learning-disabled students should be taught methods for the development and organization of ideas. Strategies are presented for helping learning-disabled students improve composition skills by improving flexibility in vocabulary and sentence structure and by planning and sequencing ideas and/or…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Prewriting, Sentence Structure
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Spiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Teacher, 1989
Examines materials designed to improve children's writing or composition abilities. Focuses on whether the materials have students use the task/strategy/skill in such a way that they can transfer the task to other materials in reading or writing situations that serve a real function. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Prewriting
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Stone, Judy – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes a pre-writing dialogue prompt, a word association activity, and a writing assignment that draw upon students' memories of saying good-bye. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Prewriting, Rhetorical Invention
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Ambron, Joanna – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Speculates that the prewriting technique of "clustering" can be an effective tool for multicultural college students learning sophisticated scientific concepts. Asserts that teachers must be willing to take risks and nurture students' creativity and self-confidence if such techniques are to succeed and supplant or supplement the lecture…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Multicultural Education, Prewriting
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Ulusoy, Mustafa – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2006
In this paper, the role of computers in writing process was investigated. Last 25 years of journals were searched to find related articles. Articles and books were classified under prewriting, composing, and revising and editing headings. The review results showed that computers can make writers' job easy in the writing process. In addition,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Writing Processes, Computer Software, Writing Ability
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Favart, Monik; Coirier, Pierre – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
o complementary experiments analyzed the acquisition of text content linearization in writing, in French-speaking participants from third to ninth grades. In both experiments, a scrambled text paradigm was used: eleven ideas presented in random order had to be rearranged coherently so as to compose a text. Linearization was analyzed on the basis…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Prewriting, Grade 9
Dondiego, Barbara L. – 1992
In craft training, children are taught preschool skills as they create art projects with an adult. By creating toys, pictures, and other projects from readily available materials, children become involved in cooking, coloring, cutting, drawing, gluing, and beginning writing. The first rule of craft training is to let the child do the work of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Materials, Beginning Writing, Creative Activities
Meeker, Michael W. – 1983
Adapting strategies of invention from the new process-oriented rhetoric, the literature teacher can help students understand what they read through prereading exercises. Presenting students with an abstract model of a text's metaphoric structure, the teacher can spark students' immediate and imaginative response to the model, involving them…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Diagrams, Discovery Processes, English Instruction
McEachern, William Ross – 1986
Elementary school students are unfamiliar with the process of writing a report on an assigned topic. One strategy for rectifying this is to have students compose reports in groups. Group compositions are a collaborative effort to prepare a piece of writing whereby students in either large or small groups work through the writing process together…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Intermediate Grades, Prewriting, Research Papers (Students)
Freedman, Aviva – 1987
As a by-product of a study concerning how university level writers develop new genres of discourse, a study was undertaken to examine what factors or dimensions affect the composing process of university writers. Six undergraduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa participated, making available to researchers information about how they…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Heuristics, Higher Education
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