Contains recommendations for teaching English to adult education students in higher education. Argues that the advent of increased numbers of adult learners demands a readjustment of attitudes and strategies in teaching English, including a recognition of the pragmatic, consumer-oriented, and highly motivated nature of adult students. (DF)

Describes a high school course in television in which students make "anti-commercials" that expose the techniques of the real commercial producers. Discusses the six steps in the production: (1) reading about and discussing commercials, (2) structuring directions, (3) writing scripts, (4) dividing production responsibilities, (5) taping, and (6)…

The benefits and shortcomings of student-teacher conferences in composition classes are analyzed. Suggestions for conference approaches are presented for more effective individual instruction. (HTH)

Explains the use of student analysis worksheets that focus on essential background information, literary elements, and techniques that the instructor and scholars find noteworthy. (MKM)

Shares an approach to teaching composition that uses checklists to clearly specify course objectives and student evaluation criteria. (RL)

Discusses reasons for teaching Shakespeare, types of responses to expect in students at different ages, a possible order for introducing Shakespeare's plays, available texts, traditional methods of teaching Shakespeare, the kinds of work being done by studdents studying Shakespeare, aids to teaching Shakespeare, possible related activities, and…

Presents four brief suggestions regarding methods for teaching poetry writing, descriptive writing, and vocabulary. (TJ)

Suggests a method for helping students eliminate trite expressions from their writing and examine values that have been passed on to them by authority figures. (TJ)

Discusses the use of an advertising symbol to demonstrate levels of meaning a symbol may have. (TJ)

Outlines a teaching technique whereby students are taught writing skills through the use of sound effects. (MAI)

Presents a method for helping students learn to evaluate data, draw conclusions, and state a most probable hypothesis in writing essays. (TJ)

Describes questioning techniques and other approaches that stimulate class discussion and lead to better student writing. (DD)

Describes a program that gives high school students training in three aspects of journalism as well as field experience. (DD)

Summarizes the outcomes of an interdisciplinary conference on writing held by UCLA's Writing Research Project and points out its implications for the teaching of writing in college. (DD)

Describes how Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development can be used to teach literature. (DD)