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50 Years of ERIC
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Business Writing and the Loss of the University.
Dukes, Thomas – CEA Forum, 1989
Argues that career preparation courses often serve only the vocational, not the intellectual and emotional, student needs. Argues that business and technical writing instructors can develop students' thinking skills by teaching them to investigate the history and culture of their chosen careers. (MM)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Student Needs
The Role of Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Undergraduate English Curriculum.
Monseau, Virginia R. – CEA Forum, 1989
Explains why courses on adolescent and children's literature are valuable additions to the college English curriculum. Outlines the content for both courses offered at Youngstown State University in Ohio. (MM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Degree Requirements, English Curriculum
A Few Words from a "Lay" Person.
Ades, John I. – CEA Forum, 1989
Examines the history and usage of the words "lay" and "lie." (MM)
Descriptors: English, English Literature, Grammar, Higher Education
Nonfiction, Women Nature Writers, and the Literature Classroom.
Hilbert, Betsy – CEA Forum, 1989
Discusses how the nonfiction genre of natural history literature (particularly by women writers) provides a valuable addition to the college English curriculum. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Genres, Literature Appreciation
A Jew Teaches Western Literature.
Salzberg, Albert C. – CEA Forum, 1989
Argues that Jewish literature and the Jewish perspective should be given some representation in college world literature courses. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Jews, Literature Appreciation
Writing the Publishable Seminar Paper.
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske – CEA Forum, 1981
Offers guidelines for choosing topics that are likely to yield potentially publishable papers, as well as suggestions about how to attempt to get "publishable" papers published. (HOD)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Publications, Writing (Composition)