DOCUMENT RESUME ED 2,16. 482 CT 208 524 AUTHOR Duke,, Charles R., Ed. %, -. TITLE Mtiting,Exercises.from "Exercise.Exchange." VoldMe II. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana,. REPORT NO ISBN-0-81415908-7, PUB DATE 84 NOTE 347p. AVAILABLE FROMNational Council of Teachers of English, 4111 Union Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 59087, $13.00 . nonmember, $10.00 member). PUB TYPE Guides -.Classroom Use - Guides (For Teachers.) (052) -- Books (010) .-- Collected Works - General (020) lot EDRS PRICE MF01/PC14 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Class Activities; Content Area Writing; *Creative 14riting4ementary Secondary Education; *Grammar; Higher Education; Integrated Activities; LiteratUre Appreciation;' Paragraph Composition; *PcsWiting; Reader"Response; Reading Instruction; 'Revision' (Written Composit'lon); Sentence-Structure; Writing Evaluation *Writing Exercises; *Writing Instruction ABSTRACT Reflecting Current practices in the teaching.ol )*Yriting, the'exercrses in this compilation were drawn from the journal "Exercise-Exchange." The articles are arranged into six sections:-Sources for writing; prewriting; modes for writing; writing and reading; language, mechanics, an4.style; and revising, responding, and evaluating. Among the tgpics covered in the, more than 75 exercises arse the following: (1) using the Tarot in the compositionclass; '(2)writing for a real.audience;'(3).writing and s careeedevelopment; (4) teaching the thesis statement. through descriptibnr (5) sense explorationand descriptive writing; (6) composition and adult students; (7) free writing; (8) in-class essays; (9) moving from prewriting into compOsing; (10) writing as l, thinking; (11) values clarification throughwriting; (i2) persuasive writing; (13) the relationship of subject, writer, and audiencev (14) business'writinv (15) teachings the research paper; (16) writing in the content areas; (17) writing from literature; (18) responding to literature via inquiry; (19) precisiodiin language usage; (20) grammar instruction; (21) topic sentences; (22) generating paragraphs; (23) writing style; (24) peer evaluation; and 125) wititg-course final examinations. .(FL) t * ***********************************;*******************************1** *- 4.Reproduttions supplied by EDRS are the best that -can be made from the original-document. *********************************************************************** ., \..0) N ''.1 co Writing Exercises ...4- ..c) from Exercise Exchange 4- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ( CJ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION cz Volume II EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATI N CENTER IERic) ' 1.1.1 )(Pitsdocument has been reproduced received hons the person or orgarnieeort enonaung o haat changed hews mute to improve reprOduchor. quaker . .- lt Podia 0 view a stated et001001 4 deco t ment do not 00Clorretift8Ont0 ME /Jan or oolKY Charles R. Duke, Editor e Utah State University Y 40' ts, Oa. t t 4 I National Council of Teachers of English "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801 MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY NCTE TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATtbN CENTER (ERIC)." 10, These articles fromExercise Exchangeare reprinted with the permission of Charles R. Duke, editor, and of the University of Vertnont and Murray-State U niversit.y.- NCTE Editorial Board. Candy Carter, Julie M. Jensen, Delores Lipscomb, John S. Mayher, Elisabeth McPherson Book Design: Tom Kovacs for TGK Graphics, interior; Gail Giende Rost for Glende Rost Associates, cover NCTE Stock Number 59.087 .4 ®1984 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the "lied States of America. It is the potict of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provideforum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Co'mmittee, the Beard of Directors, or the membership at larg?, except in announcements of policy where such endorsement is clearly specified. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Writing exercises from Exercise exchange. 1.English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching 4 (Higher)Addresses, essays, lectures.I. Duke, Chari6 It: II. Exercise exchange. PE1404.W72 4984 808'.042'0712 84-91154 ISBN 0-814j-5908-7. c, 3 b . 4 44 Contents.. .1, Foreword ix Preface xi \ . 1. Sources for Writing "1 For Writing Teachers Only! Suggestions for Student Writing Assignments 2 Anthony S. Magistrate Who Shall Survive? 9 Margaret Baker Sam L Graham Save a Marriage in- Your Classroom 12 Albert C. Yoder Composition and Newspapers: Information, Illustration, Stimulation, Evaluation 1* Marjorie Kaiser z Using the Tarot in Composition Classes 19 . Donald C. Samson % Pen Pal Writing 23 Collett B. Dilworth Writing for a Real Audience 27 Shirley Nelson e Utilizing Local Resources in Teaching the Importance of Writing Skills 30 David Hadley I Writing and Career Development 33 Heidi Koriin" Forces and Sources: Beyond the Book Room Wall 38 Natalie White 4 . Iii iv Contents Activity-Based Writing 41 Jo Lundy Pevey Hat Tricks for Teaching Writing 44 Barbara DuBois II. Prewriting 47 WritingProcess/Response Exercise 48 Donald M. Murray May 1 See Your License Please? 51 Robert Perrin T he Significant Detail 54 Ellen GFriaiman Sense Exploration and Descriptive Writing: A Practical Exercise 56 Donovan It Walling Teaching the Thesis Statement through Description . 61 Robert C'Rosen The Value of Small-Group Projects in Composition Classes 64 Donald Heidi Who Gets the Kidney Machine? Opening -Day Strategies in a Remedihl Composition Course 67 :Thomas Friedman Composition with Adult Students: Getting.Started 73 Terence G. Collins Free Writing Thai Counts 76 Carol L. Reinsberg Awareness of Audience's Needs: A Charade 80 Ann D. Spector Unscrambling Organization 82 Alan Price A Twenty-Minute Exercise for In-Class- Essays 86 Ronald E. Smith How to Introduce Introductions and Outlines 89 Greg Larkin / ,s 5 Contents Animal, Vegetable,-Mine al: A Method for Introducing Heuristics 93 Thomas M. Rivers Moving from Prewriting into Composing 98 ..- Lois Rubin 4, III. Modes for Writing 107 Observation and Order in the Writing of Description 108 Norma J. Eirigberg %- The Great Crisis Telegram: A Lesson in Conciseness 113 Timothy Brookes Analyzing a Magazine's Intended Audience' (With a Clandestine Exercise in Footnoting incorporated) 115 Lynn Z. Bloom WrittenbLogodrama: The Projected-Experience Essay 119 Robert C. Wess Writing as Thinking: Solving the Mystery of Deduction 123 David Schwab The $500.00 Proposal , 128 Adele Pittepdrigh Causal, Not Casual: An Advance Organizer for Cause and Effect Compositions v 132 Terry Dean Values Clarification through Writing 138 Richard A. Strugala Using Persuasion to Plan a Moon Walk . 141 Muriel Harris Persuasion for Survival 144 Kathleen Kelly 'Not Yet Convinced?" Another Approach to the Persuasive Paper - 148 Stanfey Sulkes From Catnaps to Essays: A Saga. , 151. * !e . 1.. Lind(Shadiow . Q. 1 Y . 1 1 k VP b t vi Contents . You Too Can Write a Science Book for Chilirenl 154 Merman A. Estrin Ar A The. Beginning and End of Writing: The Relationship of Writer-Subject-Audience k 158 Marjorie Smelstor ' , . A Business Writing Sequence for a General A . Writing Course 163 Karen L. Pe lz. Rhetoric of the Printed Media: An Approach to Composition 166 Robert Perrin . A Choosing a Career: A Researclk Project That Works 170 Adele Pittendrigh The Whole Is Not Equal to the Sum of the Parts: An Approach to Teaching the Research Paper 177 Bryant Mangum .. The Post-Mortem"Plan: Teaching Writing across the Disciplines 182 Julie Klein s , IV. Writing and Reading 193 Practically Literature: Or flow I Learned to Stop Worrying and awe the Course 194 Valerie Goldzung Writing from Literature III Donald R. Gallo . Verbal Addictions. 202 . .T. J. Roberts - -: . , One Way to the Short Story: Newspaper Clippings . as Source"MateriaI . 205 Ken Donelion Beverly Haley . "Petsona".as Character in(Literature 209 Suzanne Babcock . 4 =1111M, ..111M- Contents Thomas Carlyle in the Survey Course 213 Carroll Viera Beowulf Redux , 216 Susan Marrs Using Semantic Clues to Get at Meaning inHenry IV, Pori I 219 Irene deLa Bretonne Hays N. -Astro Poetry: Students Working as Poets William Rakauskass Language Can Do What We Want It to Do 229 Helen J. Throckmorton Disintegration 237 Peggy Ann Knapp UsingWorkingto Teach Writing 241 Robert C. Rosen ' Responding to Literature via Inquiry 244 Jerry L. Sullivan Student Writing in the Foreground of to Literature Class Eugene Smith V. Language, Mechanics, and Style 259 I Precision in Language Usage . 260 Brace W. Speck Using Astrology to Teach Connotation and Bias, 264_ Theresa Ammirati 4 Ellen Strenski ti Writing on a UserFriendly Topic: Language 268 Chris Hall An ActionLearning Apprbach to Reading, GraniMar, and Punctuation 272 R. Baird Shuthan Grammar Recharted: Sentence Analysis for Writing 276 *AnYle J. Herrington, e ye viii Contents Make Your Students See Red: A Lesson on the Topic Sentence ns 1.. Tahka Fulkerson Gen4rating Paragrans ina Four-Part Formula 290 John H. Clarke Piecing Together Bertrand Russell's "What I Have Lived For": An Exercise for Students Studying the Five-Paragrapk Theme 193 Doyle Walls A Switch in mit of View 297 Lynne Shackelford Unwriting the Kos 299 Kathleen Lampert A Question of Style 304 Peggy Jolly VI. Revising, Responding, and Evaluating 307 Magazine Advertisement. Analysis: A Group Approach to Rewriting