Shows how Tim Gallwey's psychological approach to the game of tennis can be readily applied to the art of writing. (RL)

Describes the approach used in teaching an English graduate course entitled "The Teaching of Writing to Speakers of Dialect." (DD)

Describes how the author arrived at a successful course outline for an advanced professional writing course for legal assistants. (DD)

A two-credit course for students who wish to tutor in a writing lab focuses on helping students objectively evaluate compositions and respond appropriately to them. (DD)

Encourages teachers to view writing as a process creating meaning, enabling the writer to come to grips with complex experience. (DD)

Suggests using a puzzle with a frame to demonstrate to students the value of an introduction and an outline in writing. (TJ)

Summarizes a method for teaching composition that allows for practice in straight composition, the opportunity for self-expression, and the getting of feedback by asking students to write a paragraph in response to a specific question about the text for the week and a second paragraph of reaction to the text. (TJ)

Describes 50 activity ideas and 30 topics for writing that bring career education, creative writing and composition together. (DD)

Argues for the use of dialogue writing as an aid in the teaching of composition. Notes among its advantages its potential for addressing a number of specific writing problems rarely eliminated by drill work or class lectures. (FL)

Suggests using the game "Twenty Questions" to teach the basic processes of classifying, sequencing, and questioning that are fundamental to heuristic procedures. (TJ)

Summarizes a series of four class sessions in which students write and rewrite an analysis of advertisements together. (TJ)

Explains an exercise in which logical relationships are isolated in order to help students discover how to choose their material for paragraphs. (TJ)

Describes how two fifth-grade classes and one third-grade class used peer groups to respond to students' writing. (DD)

Three high school teachers describe how they changed their approaches to the teaching of composition. (DD)

Encourages language arts teachers to give students more opportunities to write in order to develop both their reading and their writing skills. (DD)