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ERIC Number: EJ254961
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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Mystery Mechanism: A Pre-Writing Exercise.
McNair, John R.
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v8 n1 p55-56 Fall 1981
Describes a prewriting technique in which technical writing students are given a tool or mechanism with which they are unfamiliar and told to figure out what the object is from a series of clues. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Prewriting, Technical Writing, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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