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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Beyond Standards: Disciplinary and National Perspectives on Habits of Mind
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Johnson, Kristine – College Composition and Communication, 2013
This article situates the "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing" in current educational policy and in the discipline of rhetoric and composition. It argues the Framework positions the discipline to address gaps in American education by reinvigorating historical and traditional frames for writing instruction--ancient rhetoric and the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Writing Achievement, Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetoric
Bruner on Writing
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Smith, Myrna J. – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Discusses Jerome Bruner's theories regarding language as a tool for promoting cognitive growth, and shows how Bruner's ideas apply to the teaching of writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education
Composing: A Cognitive Process Theory
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Stallard, Charles – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Encourages teachers to develop students' abilities to find and explore topics and states that prewriting skills should not be overshadowed by a concern for outlining and paragraph development. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
Moving from Product toward Process.
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De Beaugrande, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Suggests that a written text and its revisions are documents of decision processes controlled by the writer's outlook on information priorities. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education
Writing as a Way of Learning and Developing.
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Irmscher, William F. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Encourages college writing teachers to promote composition as a way of learning and developing basic to all disciplines. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Reflection: A Critical Component of the Composing Process.
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Pianko, Sharon – College Composition and Communication, 1979
A study of the composing processes of 17 college freshman writers revealed the importance of reflection during composition--pausing and rescanning what has been written before continuing to write. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education
Losing One's Mind: Learning to Write and Edit.
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Mandel, Barrett J. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Writing is not the result of thinking but rather a way of thinking, and it is distinct from editing, which involves making one's writing conform to agreed upon rules. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Editing, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
Tolstoy, Vygotsky, and the Making of Meaning.
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Berthoff, Ann E. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Leo Tolstoy and Lev Vygotsky, like Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maria Montessori, and Paulo Freire, base their educational philosophies on the heuristic power of language, the form-finding, and form-creating powers of the human mind. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Higher Education
Evidence for a Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric
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Jones, David E. – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Summarizes the work of Jean Piaget and others as it demonstrates the essential continuity of natural thought processes and formal rhetorical structures. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Who's Afraid of Theory?
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Warnock, John – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Nothing is of more practical use to a writing teacher than a unified theory of writing. (JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Theories, English Instruction
Putting the Inferential Process to Work in the Classroom
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Deane, Barbara – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Ways of using literature to train students in making critical inferences are discussed. (JH)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Characterization, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen
The Student's View of the Text: Implications for Reading and Writing
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Kurland, Daniel J. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Pre-writing: The Relation between Thinking and Feeling
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Baden, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Existential Phenomenology and Personal Writing
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Jacobs, Lucky – College Composition and Communication, 1975
"Openness-to-the-world" is a prerequisite to good personal writing.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, English Instruction
I Got This Here Hang-Up: Non-Cognitive Processes for Facilitating Writing
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Denman, Mary Edel – College Composition and Communication, 1975
An emphasis on learning to make positive comments on their peers' papers improved students' writing.
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Development
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