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Pireh, Diane Flanegan – NADE Digest, 2014
This article presents strategies for using two types of essay-writing rubrics in a developmental English class of students transitioning into college-level writing. One checklist rubric is student-facing, designed to serve as a guide for students throughout the writing process and as a self-assessment tool. The other checklist rubric is…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Scoring Rubrics, Developmental Studies Programs
Daraviras, Tracy – NADE Digest, 2012
When evaluating the effectiveness of their program, members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department, a higher education opportunity program, decided to make their pedagogy more student-centered. They created a method of reading instruction, which they named critical inquiry. Its goals are to build community through teaching students to annotate,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Preparation, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness
Mulder, Tom – NADE Digest, 2012
The Silent Socratic Dialogue (SSD) writing warm-up technique places college students in a dialogic setting in which they construct the texts that explore, inform, and challenge each other through a succession of questions and answers. It validates students' voices, ideas, and interactions as worthy of study while engaging them in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Writing Instruction, College Students
Boone, Joni; Carlson, Susan – NADE Digest, 2011
Researchers from Kaplan University present findings from a media-rich feedback pilot program that targets students from developmental writing courses. One study of student reactions reveals how screencasting feedback encouraged more formative, holistic feedback and students' awareness of writing process, audience, and revision. A second study…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Writing Evaluation
Tong, Jo Ann – NADE Digest, 2009
Since the learner is actively engaged when composing writing assignments, integrating math through various writing modes can enhance and strengthen students' understanding of math concepts. Two expository writing assignments, an acrostic poem and a vocabulary activity, are demonstrated. Writing can have a positive effect on learning as students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Content Area Writing
Barnes, Sharon L. – NADE Digest, 2006
Using popular culture in my developmental writing course has prompted me to reconsider what it means to create successful developmental writing assignments. Having slipped into the questionable habit of assuming that removing complexity makes an assignment appropriate for developing writers, I pared down a fairly open-ended "media…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Developmental Studies Programs, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Dawkins, Susan – NADE Digest, 2006
One challenge faced by many writing teachers is meeting the needs of students with varying skill and confidence levels. This article describes strategies used in a Composition and Rhetoric I course to meet the needs of basic and college-level writers. Sample assignments focusing on the theme of literacy and learning are provided, including an…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Prewriting
Di Muro, Paola – NADE Digest, 2006
At some point between elementary and junior high school, something seems to occur that generates a rooted dislike toward the scientific disciplines in general and mathematics in particular. This results in most students in developmental education associating the word math with a series of illogical rules, totally disconnected from reality and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Best Practices, Developmental Studies Programs, Comprehension