Advocates students' analysis of professionally written essays to determine how those authors represent their minds moving, pulling together, organizing, and extending" the sense data of personal experience. (Author/RD)

Examines four approaches to evaluating writing, and notes the strengths and weaknesses of each. (RL)

Demonstrates that the second law of thermodynamics imposes a fundamental constraint upon the process of composition; examines the consequences of this constraint for writers and teachers of writing. (DD)

Uses the form of dialogue to explore the possibility of asking students to write dialogues and paradoxes instead of one-sided persuasive essays. (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)

When assigned to do parodies of literary works, students explore a variety of legitimate parodic relationships of significant critical interest. (DD)

A study of topic choices and inductive/deductive development methods among 1,000 Oakland University students taking writing placement tests revealed significant differences in male/female thinking patterns and ability to communicate effectively. (DD)

Considers how constructing a hopeful professional discourse requires substantial revision of current professional discursive practices. Notes that the search for local knowledge and a shared, more hopeful discourse has rekindled interest in the rhetorical as well as material authority of ideologies, in various forms of writing collected under the…

Jennifer Beech imaging herself as both scholar and redneck attended with interest a panel at the 2002 convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. This convention explored intersections of race and class in critical pedagogies.

Literature is a vehicle for teaching critical thinking and interpretation by making students write about literature rather than silencing them with hegemonic discourses. The interpretation of E.A. Poe's Annabel Lee by the students in an experiment indicates the need to develop confidence and conviction in the students regarding their writing that…

The palindromic pattern--in which formal features in the first half of a work are repeated in reverse order in the second--is frequently used by modern poets for a variety of effects. (JH)

The liberal arts will be in trouble when the public discovers that professors' efforts are as impotent as their claims are extravagant. (JH)

Describes a credit-bearing course at Brooklyn College which trains undergraduates to be peer-tutors in writing. (DD)

Deals with such matters as evaluation of the effect of peer tutoring, tutor training through counseling programs, and the effect of peer tutoring on retention in college. (DD)

Teacher comments on student compositions should encourage students to associate themselves with their writing and to grow in their writing. (DD)