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Photography and Writing: Alternative Ways of Learning for ESL Students
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Friesen, Helen Lepp – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
To writing, painting, drawing, and photography as artistic media, the author would like to add teaching as a creative endeavor as well. Especially in a classroom where English is not the first language for many students, the writing teacher needs to be creative with assignments and activities that address nontraditional ways of learning. Her…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Poetry, Writing Teachers, Photography
A License to Lie: Writing through the Facts to the Truth
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O'Leary, Maureen Ellen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2007
As a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in northern California where she teaches a variety of writing and literature courses, the author finds her students' essays so often lack not only shape and drama, but the ring of emotional truth as well. Their "life" stories are lifeless and their "true" stories sound somehow…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Writing Instruction, Autobiographies, Story Grammar
On the Use of Writing Models in Freshman English.
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Davis, Karen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Encourages student writers to read rhetorical examples more critically and to internalize writing options based on a variety of modes and ideas. (CRH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Reading Material Selection, Rhetoric, Student Writing Models
As Far as You Using Proper English, Just Lay Back, Your Not Alone.
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Brown, T. K., III – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Catalogs a variety of common grammatical errors that have entered the English language and become entrenched during this past generation, primarily through the fault of the mass media. (NKA)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Styles
Seeing Ourselves Differently: Remaking Research and Scholarship at the Community College.
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Tinberg, Howard – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1993
Argues that community colleges should be viewed as a place for both teaching and research. Maintains that many community college instructors willingly participate in a variety of scholarly and professional activities. (HB)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Professional Development
Orwell's Thrush Is a Hardy Bird.
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Gray, W. Russell – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Explores the linkages between Thomas Hardy's poem "The Darkling Thrush" and the thrush scene in George Orwell's novel "1984." Suggests a variety of enrichment projects for students that deal with aspects of these two works. (RBW)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Authors, College English, Community Control
Jakobsen's Schema of Communication in the Literature Class: Teaching Critical Reading and Writing Skills.
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Williams, Harriet – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Outlines an introductory literature course wherein students learn to apply Jakobsen's schema of the communications process to the analysis of a variety of readings, both as a means of improving their critical reading skills and as a heuristic device for the essays they write on the readings. (FL)
Descriptors: College English, Course Content, Critical Reading, Educational Theories
Stories Out of School.
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Gere, Anne Ruggles – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Tells a number of stories about young people, including the author's own children, who find a second chance through two-year community colleges. Touts community colleges as one of the few places in this increasingly stratified society where persons of various ages and from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds come together.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Mathematical Aptitude