Discusses the approaches college students often take in writing literary interpretation essays for introductory courses in literature, and suggests more profitable approaches students might take. (DD)

Reviews developments in composition in light of the current lack of attention to contexts for writing, proposes a conversational model for the interplay of reading and writing, and explores the implications of the model for teaching. (DD)

Describes how to teach college composition through individual conferences with students. (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)

Presents writing as a form of dialog and the paragraph as a unit of implied dialog. (MM)

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 such Story Workshop activities as beginning recall exercises, word exercises, oral readings, writing assignments, and tutorial conferences. (DD)

Describes a technique for teaching critical thinking in writing by stressing questioning methods and involving students in a fictional interview. (DD)

Describes the approach used in teaching an English graduate course entitled "The Teaching of Writing to Speakers of Dialect." (DD)

Draws from the theories of James Kinneavy to define technical writing, organize the technical writing course, and provide analytic depth to the course. (DD)

Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (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)

Considers the situations of "interdisciplinary writing," writing done in correspondence with subjects other than English. Describes some methods and experiences in teaching interdisciplinary writing in a college level "Writing Science" course. (JT)

A review of available textbooks and other resources dealing with neo-classical invention, prewriting, tagmemic invention and linguistic theory, the dramatistic method, and invention in speech communication. (DD)