Showing students the basic nature of reading may help them reduce the errors in the writing they submit to teachers while encouraging student reading. (DD)

Describes an expository writing course that uses the student's personal experience both to stimulate intense interest in self-expression and to stimulate disciplined analytical thinking. (DD)

A fictional account which points out that writing involves both exploration and communication and that students should be taught to explore both themselves and their political environment. (DD)

In-class reading of students' writing should be the entire business of freshman composition class meetings. (DD)

Urges teachers to hold individual conferences with students in order to meet students' individual writing needs. (RB)

Argues that assignments to write about literature can help teach rhetoric" only if administered with emphasis on the special rhetorical problems they pose." (Author/RD)

A humorous satire suggesting techniques for paragraph composition. (RD)

Reassesses Alexander Bain's contributions to rhetorical theory and argues that Bain has been misinterpreted by some and appreciated by too few. (RL)

Provides both anecdotal evidence and research data from a freshman composition program to work out a relationship between theory, research, and pedagogy. (RL)

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

Relates the dominant perspectives of past composition pedagogy--interventionism and maturationism--to their correspondent paradigms in human development--nurture and nature. Traces the use of these two educational perspectives to an emerging interactionist perspective that may unify the field of composition pedagogy. (JT)

Contends that the political philosophy underlying Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is one which reinforces both the teacher's position of control and the training of minority students to follow and obey authority. (DD)

Too many students prefer "objective" tests to essay tests because they mistakenly believe writing is isolated from the learning process. (DD)