Author: Anne Ruggles Gere
Publisher: Natl Council of Teacher
Keywords: across, disciplines, learn, writing, sawdust, roots
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1985-10-01
ISBN-10: 0814141986
ISBN-13: 9780814141984

By Anne Ruggles Gere Digitized by Colorado State University   In this collection, editor Anne Ruggles Gere offers a response to Arthur N. Applebee’s call for "more situations in which writing can serve as a tool for learning rather than as a means to display acquired knowledge" (1982). Gere brings together teacher-authors from a wide variety of disciplines to detail how they have successfully used writing activities to improve their students’ comprehension—without creating significant grading burdens for themselves.   Publication Information: Gere, Anne Ruggl

Authors: Barbara E. Walvoord, Lucille Parkinson McCarthy,
Publisher: Natl Council of Teacher
Keywords: students, four, disciplines, study, naturalistic, writing, college, thinking
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1991-05-01
ISBN-10: 0814154247
ISBN-13: 9780814154243

By Barbara E. Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy In collaboration with Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Miller Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman Digitized by the Colorado State University Libraries   This groundbreaking book reports the results of a seven-year study in which six teacher-researchers worked together to inquire into the thinking and writing of college students. The study offers a model of collaborative, naturalistic classroom research that not only allowed the investigators to investigate how students thought and wrote, but also to reflect on te

Authors: William Strunk Jr., E. B. White,  Roger AngellBra
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: fourth, style, elements
Number of Pages: 105
Published: 1999-08-02
ISBN-10: 020530902X
ISBN-13: 9780205309023

You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book’s unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.    Contents  FOREWORD ix INTRODUCTION xiii I. ELEMENTARY RULES

Authors: Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky,
Publisher: Parlor Pre
Keywords: writing, volume, spaces, readings
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2010-12-28
ISBN-10: 1602351961
ISBN-13: 9781602351967

Volumes in WRITING SPACES: READINGS ON WRITING offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Volume 2 continues the

Authors: Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky,
Publisher: Parlor Press
Keywords: writing, volume, spaces, readings
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-05-20
ISBN-10: 1602351848
ISBN-13: 9781602351844

Volumes in WRITING SPACES: READINGS ON WRITING offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s "The Subject Is . . ." series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other

Author: Bill Welch
Publisher: Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Stud
Keywords: manual, style, analyst’s
Number of Pages: 41
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0977388115
ISBN-13: 9780977388110

PREFACE The Analyst’s Style Manual is a product intended to assist student analysts with the many perplexing and complex rules they should follow in producing written intelligence products. When to capitalize? When to use numerals? When to spell out numbers? Where does a comma go? How to abbreviate? When to abbreviate? The list of questions goes on. The answers are in this manual. Follow these rules when you write intelligence products. Doing so keeps decisionmakers from being distracted by poor writing, spelling or grammar. Doing so also keeps products consistent. Inconsistency

Author: Richard P. Gabriel
Publisher: Pearson Educatio
Keywords: patterns, poetry, things, making, workshops, work, writers’
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-06-17
ISBN-10: 020172183X
ISBN-13: 9780201721836

For more than 100 years, Writers’ Workshops have offered writers deep and generous insights into their own work: insights that have helped them improve, and often inspired them to take their work in exciting new directions. Recently, technical, scientific, and business professionals have also discovered the immense value of the Writers’ Workshop format in solving their creative problems. Now, an experienced leader and participant shows how Writers’ Workshops work -- and how they can help everyone from poets to software architects. Richard P. Gabriel considers the Writers&rsqu