Describes an approach to teaching the research paper which involves getting students to research and write about subjects of current interest to them. (DD)

Describes a technique which involves asking students to first write an opinion paper and then to transform it into a research paper. (DD)

Teachers should not waste their time teaching grammar, but should instead help students develop fluence, maturity, and artistry of expression through work on the sentence. (DD)

Describes four ethical ways to return student papers and three unethical ways which do not respect the confidentiality of students' grades. (DD)

Shows how the study of literature and the skills of writing and thinking can be mutually reinforcing activities. (DD)

Compares the theories of writing style advocated by Barthes and Coles. (FL)

Examines the difficulty an aspiring poet faces in publishing, and by reprinting an example, praises poetry as a refining of raw experience and exhorts all poets to continue writing. (CRH)

Presents a sampling of the issues contained in the rhetoric and composition papers presented at the Modern Language Association at the end of the nineteenth century. (EL)

Discusses college handbooks and rhetorics' stereotypes of women as sex objects, passive nourishers, perpetual children, and invisible presences. (DD)

A comparative study of three approaches to freshman English: a traditional grammar approach, a free-writing approach, and a quasi-linguistic approach (sector analysis). (DD)

Suggests using student media compositions (collages) as preparatory exercises for theme assignments and provides examples of how this can be done. (TO)

The author discusses the linguistic dispute of Black English, or Black Idiom vs. Standard English and argues for the acceptance of the former. (MM)

The 21 books reviewed were published in 1968, 1969, or 1970; excluded are remedial texts," those on extremely narrow topics," and those on rhetoric alone." (Author/RD)