Topics for English Updates 05

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• Topic: Small-group Discussion
• Topic: Basic Writers
• Topic: Language Differences and Writing
• Topic: The Problem with Writing and Technology
• Topic: Learning to Write
• Topic: Bull....
• Topic: Activism and Writing and Speaking
• Topic: Mapping, a Metaphor for Analysis
• Topic: Student Self-Evaluation of Writing
• Topic: Collaborative Writing
• Topic: Children's Reading Habits Today
• Topic: The Role of Emotion in Writing
• Topic: Composing Writing Assignments
• Topic: Relevance of Libraries in the Age of Google...
• Topic: Online Learning
• Topic: Learning Communities in the Two-Year Colleg...
• Topic: Business Schools and Writing
• Topic: Professional Acrimony
• Topic: William Strunk Jr.
• Topic: Examples of Latest in MLA Style Sheet
• Topic: Finding a Wider Audience for Research on Wr...
• Comments on College Writing
• Suggested Column on College Writing
• Writing Summaries
• Literary Naturalists
• Word Search
• Watson the Computer vs. Jeopardy
• "Sit Spots" and Writing Journals
• Ideas and Articles from The Writer Magazine
• Negative Influence of High-stakes Tests on Teachin...
• American Teaching
• Improving Student Discussions
• Critical Questioning
• Arguing
• Purpose of Talk
• Discussion: Talk Tickets
• Conclusion to the Roles People Play in Small Group...
• Roles People Play in Small-Group Discussion: Self-...
• Topic: Task Roles in Small-Group Discussions
• Topic: Roles People Play in Small-group Discussion...
• Topic: Roles People Play in Small-group Discussion
• Bill Gates on Technology in the Classroom
• Hope
• Bill Gates on Teacher Improvement
• Shakespeare
• Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
• Literature in the 21st Century
• "Writing on the Cheap"
• Reflective Teaching
• Problem Solving for Teachers
• Small-Group Work:Assigning Tasks
• The Significance of Fluency in Reading
• Reviewing This Blog, English Updates
• The Paper Chase
• Goals of Secondary English
• English Language Learners [ELLs]
• Revision
• "Vooks"
• MBAs Don't Know How to Write
• Practicing Writing: The Ten-Minute Essay and Stand...
• Practicing Writing: The Ten-Minute Essay and Stand...
• Writing the Ten-Minute Essay (2)
• Practicing Writing: The Ten-Minute Essay (1)
• Practicing Writing
• Literature and Masterpiece Theater
• Writing Process Dramatized on Network TV
• Introduction of Quotes in Research Papers
• Essay Tests in All Disciplines
• Cliches
• Writing Assignments in Disciplines Other Than Engl...
• Exploring Writing in the Professions
• Writing and Nontraditional Adult Students in Commu...
• Learning Community
• Learning
• Nancy Atwell
• Teaching at Home; Homework in the Classroom
• More "Wisdom" about Language from Ken Lindblom, Ed...
• The Study that "proved" Grammar Does Not Improve W...
• Grammar--Again!
• Publication as Motivation
• College Test Preparation Services
• Standard English
• Too Good to Miss
• Memorizing Poetry
• Bill Gates on Small High Schools
• Reflections on Writing
• The Grammar of Page Design
• Supervision Lesson #4: Authority (3)
• Supervision Lesson #4:: Authority (2)
• Supervision Lesson #4: Authority (1)
• Learning from Mentoring
• Style: Free Modifiers
• Grammar "Rules"
• Grammar Applied
• Translations
• Dangerous Words
• Business and Writing
• "Finglish."
• Shakespeare's Language
• Plain Language Awards
• Exclamation Mark!
• Young Adult Fiction
• Dual-Enrollment High School and College Programs i...
• Key Questions about English Education
• Multi-lingual Classrooms in Writing
• Literacy Narratives
• Life-long Literacy
• Confrontations
• Zing!
• Structure of Writing: Intros and Endings
• Basic Writers and Reading
• Peer Editing
• Academic Writing
• Rejected!
• Dealing with Those in Leadership Roles
• Advice on Writing
• Psychology for Writers
• Euphemisms
• Writers on Writing
• Peer Editing or Critiquing Groups
• Talking Pennsylvanian: the Strange Langwitch
• Vocabulary
• Topics for the month of July 2011
• "Ecopoetics"
• Rhetoric and Autism
• Autism
• More Practical Ideas for Teaching ESL
• Listening
• Collaborative Writing
• Not Reading
• Summary of Working with ESL Students
• A Second Experience in Publishing
• How Other People Can Help the Writer
• A Judgmental Review of My Article
• My First Professional Article
• Professional Writing
• Publishing
• Book Report
• Advice on Collaborative Writing
• "I Hate Writing."
• Drama in the Classroom
• Purpose in Writing
• Thoughts on Achievement in School
• Review of Topics for English Updates, June 2011.
• I Hadn't Thought of That....
• Advice on Rejection for Writers
• "Good" Writing
• Storyboards to Interpret Text
• War and Literature
• Plagiarism
• Academic Dishonesty
• Assessment of small-Group Process
• Evaluating the Teaching of Writing Today
• Writing Process
• More on Nouns and Verbs
• Writers on Writing
• Writing and Adjectives
• Authentic Assessments and ESL Students
• Writers on Writing
• FYI: From the Wall Street Journal
• Summarizing "Reading and Writing and ESL Students"...
• Students' Reflections on Their Writing
• Purpose for Reading Literature
• World Literature
• Plagiarism
• Plagiarism
• Administrators
• Women and Rhetoric
• Reading Levels and Reading Needs
• Wordless Picture Books for Immigrants
• "Conversations" and Controversy in the NCTE
• Cover Letter for Employment
• The 50's Counterculture
• Paraprosdokian
• Metaphors for the Function of Literature
• Young Adult Literature
• Standards-based Education
• Standards-based Education
• A Rubric for Assessing Writing
• Assessment of ESL Students' Writing
• English Teacher's Purpose
• Writing Memoirs
• Rejection for Writers
• "Knots" in Writing
• Rules for Writing
• Personal Essays
• Personal Essays
• Bad Writing
• Technology
• Standardized Tests, K-12
• Feedback on Writing
• Teacher Education
• Changing University English Dept.
• WWII Japanese-American Internees
• Writer as Citizen
• Literature and Empathy
• Reading Speeds
• Quotes
• Cliches
• Rhetoric of Indigenous People
• The Future of English Teaching
• Two Quotes about Writing
• NCTE: An Important Omission--Ethics
• Reading and Interpreting Poetry
• Standard English as One of Many Dialects
• Evaluating Online Sources: The CRAP Test
• Evaluating Student Writing
• Five-Paragraph Theme
• NCTE and You
• Goal of the Community College Teacher
• Adults and Children's Reading
• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Rewards for Reading
• Kindles in the Classroom
• Teaching English as a Second Language
• Evaluating Web Sites by Elementary Students
• Reading Stress
• Vocabulary in the Elementary Grades
• Rating Fluency in Reading
• Getting Started on the School Year
• Thinking Visually
• Reading Critically
• Writing Is Obsolete
• Multi-modal Composition
• Adult Book Club Practices
• Truth about Homework
• Reading Process
• Trying Strategies in Journal Articles
• Math and Literacy (2)
• Math and Literacy (1)
• Teaching Poetry
• Personal Literacy Assessment
• The Classics
• College Writing Placement
• Prior Learning Assessment
• Writing, Craft and Atomic Energy
• Much Ado About....
• Change in Language
• The Significance of NCTE Journals
• 100 Years of Research in English
• Artificiality of Freshman Composition
• A Warning about Media in 1936.
• Should Teachers Express Their Own Opinions?
• Advice for Commenting [On Student Compositions]
• What Freshman Writers Need
• Publishing Students' Papers
• Ten Books on Writing
• Merit Pay
• Science and Poetry
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