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Peer reviewedGreenberg, Karen L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
The article describes components of writing competence for instructors of basic writers (e.g., remedial, disadvantaged, language/learning disabled) emphasizing fluency, clarity, and appropriateness. Implications of research for the teaching of writing (such as the significance of errors) and assessment of writing competence are noted. (DB)
Descriptors: Competence, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Handicaps
Kirch, Ann – 1991
Using cooperative learning techniques in writing classes requires the instructor to plan carefully and respond spontaneously to the assignment as students work through it. Steps using the techniques successfully include: (1) developing academic objectives for each step in the writing process (i.e., prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning
Download full textDellow, Donald A., Ed.; Poole, Lawrence H., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1984
The articles in this collection identify and discuss challenges facing community colleges as they attempt to implement the new microcomputer technology for instructional and administrative purposes. The collection includes: "The Microcomputer Revolution and Its Impact on Community Colleges," by Donald A. Dellow and Lawrence H. Poole;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, College Administration, College Libraries
Villanueva, Victor, Jr., Ed. – 1997
Intended for experienced teachers of composition and for graduate student of composition studies, this collection of essays represents an overview of the last 30 years of composition theory--a near chronology of the profession's changes, from process to cohesion to cognition to social construction to ideology. The 41 essays and their authors…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational History, Higher Education, Student Needs
Petrosky, Anthony R., Ed.; Bartholomae, David, Ed. – 1986
Intended for composition teachers and researchers, as well as those involved with educational issues apart from the writing community (legislators, administrators, researchers in other fields, parents), this book contains essays that take a critical step beyond the standard arguments of the profession, pushing hard for example, at some of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Walshe, R. D., Ed. – 1983
The articles in this collection are intended to present a detailed picture of the work of Donald Graves and his associates at the Writing Process Laboratory (WPL) of the University of New Hampshire. The introduction provides an overview of the work of Graves and examines his views of beginning writing, writing conferences, revision, audience, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Mason, Jana M., Ed. – 1989
This collection of papers, from a conference on reading and writing connections held at the University of Illinois in October 1986, reflects the value of demonstrating connections between reading instruction and writing. The book shows practitioners how writing can be blended with reading instruction and how writing activities can be used not just…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Expository Writing
