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ERIC Number: EJ381694
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Telephones and Roommates: Teaching Students what They Know about Writing.
Snyder, Lolly Ockerstrom
College Composition and Communication, v39 n4 p461-63 Dec 1988
Describes the use in the classroom of students' phone messages and casual notes to illustrate the relationship between composition class and writing in students' daily lives, that writing defines itself according to the purpose and audience of each task, and that they already know a great deal about writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Writing Assignments; Writing Contexts