Discusses the roles that writers must assume during the writing process and offers suggestions to help children prevent these roles from conflicting or interfering with each other during writing. (HTH)

Describes a sequence of instructional strategies for teaching writing, based on schema theory, to help young readers with comprehension and structure. The sequence includes "factstorming," categorizing facts, collaborative drafting, sequencing paragraphs, drafting introductions and conclusions, organizing parts, interpreting similar…

Describes a system for grading student compositions that evaluates the central idea, support material, organization, expression, and literacy, as a supplement to written comments from the teacher. Contains a copy of the grade and comment sheet. (HTH)

An educator, a parent of a gifted child, recounts her son's use of the mail to increase his contact with the adult world, master typing skills, improve his writing, and become acquainted with the business world. (CL)

Presents suggestions for teachers to help writing students understand when and when not to revise their writing. (HTH)

Presented are several successful techniques used by practicing teachers of English composition to minimize the pain of paper grading, composition evaluation, and revision, for both students and teachers. (KC)

Twenty-four writing exercises which have been found successful in challenging gifted children are provided. Among exercises described are having the class write a story about information of their choosing from an almanac and having students write a story about what they usually think about just before falling asleep. (PHR)

Lists 16 questions for eliciting student writing. (JT)

Discusses the "stock issues" approach to argument, presents a contemporary stock issue system for the arrangement of a single composition, and constructs a model argument as a way of demonstrating how the system works. (FL)

Contends that students need to be taught how to analyze their audience and to adapt what they say to that audience. Describes teaching methods used to introduce students to the use of a heuristic model for audience analysis in written discourse. (FL)

Recounts the experiences of a writer-in-residence at a small liberal arts college as she helped her students through the composing process. (RL)

Describes how changing a tire while students observe and take notes can be used as one way of teaching the description of a process. (TJ)

Contains 19 standards for basic writing programs, covering teaching and learning, support, and program evaluation, developed by the Committee on Writing Standards of the National Council of Teachers of English for the United States Office of Education. (DD)

Describes the Freshman Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Temple University, in which a group of freshmen join four to six faculty members in an interdisciplinary study of a broad topic. (DD)

Provides pointers for writing yearbook picture captions and discusses ways of getting ideas for captions. (GT)