Writing classes should provide students with an opportunity to consciously define and explore their values. (DD)

Advocates the teaching of interdependent courses, which combine a section of composition and an introductory course in another subject, such as psychology. (DD)

Criticizes English departments for ignoring the need for research and adequate instructional programs in the areas of competency referred to by the term "literacy": reading, writing, comprehending, and communicating. Suggests ways of bridging the gap between literature and composition. (EL)

Presents insights that the Oral Proficiency Testing Program of the Foreign Service Institute can give writing teachers and focuses specifically on how these insights can help them to identify and articulate appropriate objectives for basic writing courses and to develop curricula appropriate to those objectives. (EL)

Describes a teaching method that uses Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's "Ulysses" to teach punctuation to freshman writing students. Argues that the assignment helps students discover their power as orderers. (EL)

Discusses the use of psychoanalytic techniques to probe written works for their inherent biases of interpretation. Uses the authors' experience of teaching basic writers to analyze Freud's "Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria," in order to expose Freud's biases in interpreting Dora's experiences. (JC)

Emphasizes understanding the social psychology of individual and community resistance to schooling in classes of adult students in job training programs. Points out that basic unit of educational organization should be the group of teachers, that classes should be organized as work groups which should share the tasks of education and everyday…