Writing

Displaying 101 - 150 of 181 in reverse chronological order
# Title Date Summary
101 For all levels of ability; reading improvement services
Northern Iowan 69:3, p.9 		Detailed description of reading improvement services.
102 English Club sponsors writing workshop Saturday
Northern Iowan 67:47, p.4 		Conference will be for junior and senior students and faculty.
103 Writing winners told
Northern Iowan 67:11, p.4 		List of winners in Hearst writing contest.
104 Seniors to write composition test Thursday
Northern Iowan 64:48, p.8
105 UNI drops English writing test requirement
Northern Iowan 64:30, p.1 		No longer required for students transferring English credit to UNI.
106 Protests transfer tests
College Eye 63:56, p.4 		Feels the writing test given to transfer students is archaic.
107 Results for English tests are available
College Eye 63:55, p.8
108 'Cherishers of English language' appalled by Wollner's letter
College Eye 63:52, p.2 		Disturbed by the ignorance of a previous letter.
109 Hours set for senior writing tests
College Eye 63:44, p.12 		Must take composition test.
110 Poet to visit SCI
College Eye 63:31, p.3 		Encourages the active participation in poetry by all people.
111 Writing service referment procedures attacked by friend of SCI student
College Eye 60:65, p.2 		Disagrees with the current referment procedures.
112 Writing service--a desirable aid to students
College Eye 60:62, p.2 		Encourages students to seek out help with their writing.
113 Dates set for composition product testing
College Eye 60:53, p.4 		Measuring effects of composition classes.
114 English research grant
Alumnus 51:1, p.8 		$60,000 grant will support research on freshman composition.
115 Senior Forum: Teaching of grammar should be optional
College Eye 60:24, p.2 		Gives reasons why he does not believe that grammar courses should be required.
116 Grant to be given over period of four years
College Eye 60:23, p.1 		$60,018 grant will attempt to measure effectiveness of college composition classes.
117 New publication for freshman English themes
College Eye 60:10, p.8 		Will provide showcase for freshman writing.
118 34 graders evaluate freshman compositions
College Eye 59:48, p.3 		Attempting to determine whether or not writing courses really do teach students to write better.
119 Untitled
College Eye 59:48, p.2 		Student's hand aching from writing term papers.
120 Seven honored at evening of creative writing
College Eye 59:41, p.1 		UPC sponsors competition; list of winners.
121 Writers need practice, must know grammar, rhetoric
College Eye 59:33, p.2 		Composition courses are ineffective; must be re-vamped.
122 Nelson adds to current theme grading question
College Eye 59:31, p.2 		Qualified students could read extra papers; papers could replace question-and-answer time during lectures.
123 Function of extra theme assignments: lessen inhibition
College Eye 59:31, p.2 		Students could be more comfortable with their English/communication skills if they were required to write more papers.
124 'Little themes' give English I practice
College Eye 59:29, p.2 		Disagrees with Fox's suggestion in previous article to assign more ungraded themes.
125 Fox maintains students need more theme writing
College Eye 59:28, p.2 		Current practice of ten 400-word themes is not enough to develop students' writing skills.
126 English tests to be given next Monday
College Eye 59:15, p.5 		Will measure effectiveness of composition classes.
127 College composition--is it necessary?
Alumnus 49:4, p.7 		Project underway to answer this question.
128 Wants return to strong, intense writing
College Eye 58:35, p.2
129 Taylor sees cliché as hindrance to creative writing
College Eye 58:30, p.2 		Loren Taylor talks about writing.
130 Project English object: do English I & II really help?
College Eye 58:9, p.1 		Study will look at effectiveness of composition classes.
131 New program offers writing aid to students
College Eye 58:9, p.3 		Ross Jewell talks about new Writing Improvement Service.
132 Many student writing problems result of ineffective grammar instruction
College Eye 57:38, p.3 		Excerpts from speech by Andrew MacLeish.
133 Creative writing contest opens for students
College Eye 57:19, p.1 		Commons will sponsor contest; James Hearst and Loren Taylor will judge entries.
134 Can college students write?
College Eye 56:34, p.2 		Editors believe that SCI writing standards are lax.
135 'Correctness in writing' ploy is futile
College Eye 56:32, p.2 		Professor Fox expresses weariness from arguing with students over grades.
136 Inattention to spelling a baffling problem
College Eye 56:29, p.2 		Professor Fox asks why "bourgeoisie" was so often misspelled in a recent examination.
137 Contest needs student backing . . .
College Eye 51:10, p.8 		Discusses an editorial-writing contest through the University of Havana, Cuba.
138 Special English to be offered at Price School
College Eye 50:28, p.3 		Class will be offered to fifty high school students.
139 Notice
College Eye 50:3, p.1 		New students must take composition examination.
140 Catsnip 'T'
College Eye 50:1, p.2 		Laments the difficulties of writing a column.
141 Students must communicate
College Eye 49:17, p.1 		Faculty now have option to refer students whom they perceive to have difficulty with writing, speech, or reading.
142 A sloppily written letter instigates new TC provision
College Eye 48:31, p.6 		Students must show a competence in reading, writing, and speaking in order to graduate.
143 Quality of writing improves while under writing clinic
College Eye 48:18, p.7 		Ross Jewell talks about helping students to improve their writing; photo.
144 Musings; fate's inevitable blow descends; the writer's all out of ideas
College Eye 47:27, p.2 		Discusses the frustrations of writer's block.
145 J. W. Maucker discusses the problems facing administrators in an article, "A Migraine Headache for School Administrators"
Public Relations News Release 1952:518, p.1 		Pressures on schools to teach more "things" to more children in the face of inflation and increased competition for the tax dollar spell a headache for school acministrators, according to Maucker's article in Midland Schools.
146 Columnist confesses long concealed ambition
College Eye 43:15, p.2 		Discusses failed attempts to get the 'book rights' of several popular movies.
147 Jewel conducts new writing clinics
College Eye 43:13, p.5 		For those who need help with their writing skills.
148 College president see "overwhelming" job ahead
Public Relations News Release 1950:248, p.1 		"They (the schools) are being required to teach more youngsters more things" in the face of spiraling costs and a zooming birthrate, he said. (about 3.7 million babies were born in this country in 1947 compared with 1940's two million.)
149 Writing contests announced by Mademoiselle, CBS-Video
College Eye 41:21, p.8
150 Creative writing club is planned
College Eye 40:22, p.3 		Professor Maurer is sponsoring organizational meeting.