Exercises in 10 prewriting skill areas (scribbling, imitation, tracing, completion, discrimination, automatic writing, cued writing, free associating, ordered writing, and message writing) are suggested to help students with writing disabilities. The exercises are explained to help in identifying as well as remediating the problem. (CL)

A novelist, poet, and painter describes her method of teaching creative writing. (AEA)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and television script writer Alex Haley offers advice to aspiring writers, pointing out that the main factor in success as a writer is the willingness to devote great quantities of time to writing. (AEA)

Describes the structural similarities inherent in musical and linguistic compositions and how they reflect basic human impulses and principles of effective composition. Uses Bach's "Passacaglia" to illustrate the characteristics of good composition. (JMF)

Suggests five criteria against which any revised approach to research writing ought to be tested. Concludes with some general remarks about the shaping of future courses in research writing. (RL)

Argues that teachers need to be aware of the diverse conceptual demands made by writing assignments in various disciplines; illustrates this by analyzing four assignments. (DD)

Describes the benefits to be derived from a system of grading in which every student's paper is read by two teachers. (DD)

Encourages teachers not to grade each individual student composition, but instead to grade papers only at the end of each semester. (DD)

Argues that composition teachers should emphasize the role of audience in discourse, and suggests two ways to accomplish this. (DD)

Describes how to motivate students by helping them publish their own writing or find commercial firms to publish it for them. (DD)

Discusses the writing teacher's role as a commentator on students' papers, a role encompassing correcting, emoting, describing, suggesting, questioning, reminding, and assigning. (DD)

Describes how the use of primary trait scoring by composition teachers can improve students' rhetorical fluency and awareness. (DD)

Suggestions to help elementary educators teach students to use adjectives sparingly yet effectively include presenting and discussing definitions of adjectives from grammar books, incorporating models of adjective use from literature, explaining redundant adjective use, avoiding grammar exercises that require rewriting to add adjectives, and…

When conducting a job search, first decide what job area to go after, then find out more about it. Next write a resume. Name, address, and telephone number should go at the top. If the job objective is known exactly, list that next. Now comes work experience; begin with the most recent and work backwards. Don't just list what was done, tell how…

A brief introduction outlines a general print product planning, production, and distribution process which is followed by explanations of 26 print process concepts with references to the ideas of experts in the field. The alphabetically-arranged concepts include audience, brochures, content, disclaimers, editing, format, grammar, halftones, inks,…