Serving as a basis for an educational dialogue that needs to take place in every school district in South Dakota, this technical guide to the South Dakota Communication/Language Arts Standards includes the Goals, Indicators, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Standards for reading, writing, listening and viewing, and speaking. It is organized in grade…

This wide-ranging analysis of doctoral education in English Studies challenges readers to reconsider their assumptions about how English Ph.D. programs came to be, what purposes they serve, and what they might become--what they ought to become--in the 21st century. Section I traces the first century of English doctoral education in the American…

Describes an interdisciplinary effort that combines instruction in fundamentals of speech communication and English composition. (PD)

Uses a principal's disturbing experience to introduce the contention that teachers' lack of careful attention to instructing students about report writing may lead to mere copying, which in upper grades can become plagiarism. Proposes a solution involving the "six questions" (who? what? when? where? why? and how?). (JM)

Offers suggestions on responding to and grading student writing. (AEA)

Discusses theoretical models of the composing process and summarizes major related research. Indicates ways to help students with the planning and revising components of the process and suggests writing experiences that do not increase the number of compositions teachers must read and evaluate. (RH)

Discusses the merits of doing institutional research with a business writing class and outlines the process for completing such a project. (AEA)

Reviews materials in the ERIC system that level criticisms at creative writing in the schools and that present suggestions for activities that promote good writing that is also creative. (HTH)

Writing can be a fun and rewarding form of self-expression for gifted students. Some specific writing activities which can provide enrichment include recording, in detail, visual observations; making observations about a specific topic (such as television shows or some other subject the students have experience with); and recording personal…

The personal comments of literary naturalist, John Burroughs, whose 60-year writing career began in the 1860s, can guide writing teachers today. Recommended techniques include literary walks, a fermentation process between contact with nature and writing about it, emphasis on clarity and truth, and keeping a journal. (NEC)

Describes the use of literary models, exemplified by scientific discourse and popular folk music, in a composition program. (AEA)

Describes a "focused holistic" method of writing evaluation, which considers a total piece of writing, but in terms of predefined criteria. Provides sample evaluations. (HTH)

Offers a five-step support technique for transferring speaking to writing and offers observations on helping children with the conventions of writing. (HTH)

Composition is not a straightforward, linear process; it involves a creative search for meaning that becomes clear only as the writer engages in the composing process. This suggests that teaching not dwell on the correctness of the finished product. (Author/SJL)

Presents a rationale for organizing a writing course around a feminist perspective and provides course outlines with appropriate readings and writing activities. (HTH)