The article describes the use of dialogue journals with hearing impaired students. The approach allows teachers to engage students in the natural, purposeful use of written language in an immediately meaningful format. Examples of dialogue journal communication with children and college students are provided. (CL)

The article describes writing process approaches with primary and secondary level hearing impaired students. Such an approach features interaction with fellow writers. (CL)

This book focuses on the work of writing, dealing with the thinking, strategizing, and decision making that academic and professional writers do. It also deals with the complex issues of purpose, audience, genre, and voice that all writers face. The chapters are: (1) "The Work of Writing"; (2) "Contributing to the Professional Conversation"; (3)…

Suggesting that schools can provide valuable reading and writing practice for their students through the implementation of a school post office program, this booklet describes the United States Postal Service's "Wee Deliver" program and provides some materials to get the program started. Participants may model their school after a town…

Suggesting that students can be independent thinkers and writers, this book helps teachers implement an effective factual thinking and writing program into elementary, middle, and high schools. It demonstrates six different models of factual writing: narratives, procedures, descriptions, reports, explanations, and arguments. An introduction is…

A special educator reviews approaches for assessing the writing skills of learning disabled students (by both formal and informal methods), describes common problems, lists prerequisites (such as sufficient visual and motor memory), and suggests prewriting activities as well as ways to help specific writing weaknesses. (CL)

The article examines two topics important to educators working with learning disabled college writers: error patterns of college learning disabled, normal, and basic writers across different tasks and instructional approaches successful in improvng the written language skills of college learning disabled writers, such as sentence combining and…

Examines three strategies by which competitive debaters generate and organize their affirmative cases. Discusses how the persuasive writer can use these same three strategies as heuristics for deliberative discourse and as models for its organization. (HTH)

Notes how several long-accepted methods of teaching writing actually retard or prevent development of competence in writing and suggests alternative methods. Student energies should be focused on communicating ideas rather than on displaying formal perfection. (PGD)

Explores the implications of using essay writing for teaching students the basic concepts constituting historical-mindedness and suggests six guidelines for use in secondary school and college classrooms. (Author/CK)

To dramatize the need for logical organization and precise definition, students are asked to write essays describing specific everyday objects (e.g., screwdriver, nutpick). After the essay is read aloud the class tries to guess the item and comments on the effectiveness of the description. (DS)

Proposes a heuristic that can be used specifically for expressive writing in which students define or discover their personal identity and express themselves. (FL)

Demonstrates how writing can grow from the ongoing curriculum by discussing types of writing included in a unit on pets, suggests areas of the curriculum and materials that are good springboards to writing, and describes instructional materials that focus on writing. (ET)

Suggests creating subtle but simple controversial issues and personalities for student assignments to help students consider the problem of audience in technical and business writing. (TJ)