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Facts on the teaching of grammar - 0 views

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    By Constance Weaver, prepared for the Michigan English Language Arts Framework project, 1995. In C. Weaver, L. Gillmeister-Krause, & G. Vento-Zogby, Creating Support for Effective Literacy Education (Heinemann, 1996). May be copied.
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    The thread (Editing, GULP!) referenced the work of Braddock and Hillocks on grammar. This factsheet nicely summarizes their arguments, as well as others who have followed a similar path.
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Fink, L. Dee - 1 views

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    This biographical page, by the IDEA Center (a nonprofit that promotes improvement of teaching, learning, and leadership) describes the career and significant presentation topics of L. Dee Fink; his most popular work seems to be The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well.
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    Dr. Fink was mentioned in the Editing, GULP forum, as L.H. attended one of his professional development presentations.
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Educative assessment : designing assessments to inform and improve student performance - 1 views

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    By Grant P. Wiggins. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
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Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation - 1 views

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    By Lynne Truss. New York: Gotham Books, 2004.
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Successful College Writing, Third Edition - 0 views

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    By Kathleen T. McWhorter. Book companion site for Third Edition
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Accelerated Learning Project (ALP): The 2nd Annual Conference on Acceleration - 0 views

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    ALP at Community College of Baltimore County, Conference dates: June 24th-25th, 2010.
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Errors and expectations : a guide for the teacher of basic writing - 0 views

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    This important early (1977) discussion of basic writing made a woke the world up to the concept of teaching basic writing and still provides important insights today. Her work on error analysis is very useful.
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    By Mina P Shaughnessy. Published by Oxford University Press, 1977. This guide examines student errors in thousands of papers to better understand the nature of writing errors among incoming college students.
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Things fall apart - 0 views

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    By Chinua Achebe, published by Anchor Books, 1994
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Little big man - 0 views

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    By Thomas Berger. Published by Dial Press, 1964
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The college fear factor : how students and professors misunderstand one another - 1 views

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    By Rebecca Cox, published by Harvard University Press, 2009
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    RA recommended as essential reading for community college teachers (week 9, semester 4).
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    Coach RA recommended this book as one that is helping her to better understand her students.
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Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything - 0 views

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    By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by William Morrow, 2005.
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    Mentioned in Choice Event: Imitation (JE)
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Online writing instruction: no longer a novelty - 0 views

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    By Deb Aronson. In Council Chronicle, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, Vol 19(#2), Nov 2009. pp. 18-21. Click to page 18 of this PDF for the start of the article.
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    NH says, "In this article Scott Warnock and others describe the high level of detail that is needed in an online syllabus and writing assignments."
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Point of view: in teaching composition, 'formulaic' is not a four-letter word - 0 views

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    By Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff. In Style, vol 42 (1), spring 2008. pp 18-21. Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 54 (30), p A40.
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Other people's children: cultural conflict in the classroom - 0 views

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    By Lisa Delpit, published by W.W. Norton, 1995. The book examines issue of race in schools and cultural clashes in the classroom.
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