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

Presents the flaws and errors characteristic of the writing of undergraduates as an art that cannot be reproduced--except by other undergraduates. Ridicules the language of textbooks. (HTH)

Discusses "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, and Charles William Eliot's Inaugural Address to the First Papish Church in an attempt to arrive at a coherent ideology on teaching composition. (RB)

Suggests that the act of writing is a process of discovery in which students become aware of their thoughts and acquire knowledge by making their ideas take shape on paper. (RB)

Argues that studying English can equip students to grapple with the abstractions, concepts, and vague or ambiguous utterances they encounter in other endeavors. (RB)

Presents a taxonomy of writing instruction, a model or paradigm of the writing process, an application of this model to the teaching of writing, and an explanation of the empirical basis of the model. (Author/GW)

Discusses various aspects of language--written and spoken--and concludes that departments of English have not yet met their responsibilities concerning the teaching of writing. (JM)

An address to the ADE in New York, 26 December 1972. (RB)

Offers pointers for establishing a college-sponsored essay contest for public school students in grades five through twelve and enumerates the benefits of such a program. (NKA)

Sketches the historical movement from orality to literacy, as described by Walter J. Ong, and discusses some general suggestions for teaching writing in a developmental sequence. (Author/GT)

To alleviate current instructional and curricular problems, college English departments should cooperate with secondary schools in such areas as teacher training in writing instruction, reduction of teaching loads, and grading of papers of college-preparatory students. Colleges should also consider establishing admission requirements of four years…