Essay Examination Prompts and the Teaching of Academic Writing.

Horowitz, Daniel

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Publication Date: 1986

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Essay Examination Prompts and the Teaching of Academic Writing.

Horowitz, Daniel

English for Specific Purposes, v5 n2 p107-20 1986

Presents a four-task typology (concept, relation, process, argumentation) of essay examination prompts, based on study of 284 prompts used in 15 academic departments at Western Illinois University, and shows how it can be used to help foreign students sharpen their English-language essay examination-taking skills. (CB)

Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Cues, English for Academic Purposes, Essay Tests, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Prompting, Rhetoric, Second Language Learning, Test Wiseness, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement

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