Describes a method of teaching college composition which involves students in writing poems in collaboration with the teacher and other students. (DD)

An analysis of the nature of language, the impact of the mass media, and their implications for teaching reading and writing. (DD)

Examines the ways in which literacy functions in institutional encounters and focuses on the ways literacy interacts with power and authority. Examines the enactment of literacy in medical encounters. Finds that institutional encounters enacting the discourse system of American medicine reproduce power and dominance in fairly predictable ways. (TB)

Examines hundreds of compositions from 19th-century students at Mount Holyoke and other institutions. Finds that the first generation of women to attend United States colleges negotiated competing demands of service (to family and community) and of individual intellectual performance. Contrasts women's compositions to men's. Illustrates effects of…

The author suggests that English-only classrooms are not only the implicit goal of much language policy in the United States, but also assumed to be already the case, an ironic situation in light of composition's historical role as "containing" language differences in U.S. higher education. He suggests that the myth of linguistic…

Techniques suggested by Eric Berne's work freed freshmen students to write easily and well. (JH)

The use of taped comments on student papers carries the message to students that writing really is less important and more difficult than talk. (JH)

A 1975 study of community college composition programs revealed a dismaying lack of knowledge about educational innovations. (DD)

The NCTE Commission on Composition has prepared and adopted this position paper to state essential principles in the teaching of writing, hoping to guide teachers, parents, and administrators in understanding the power of writing and in teaching it effectively. (CRH)

Examines the results of a teachers' workshop designed to improve the quality of teaching in composition courses for college freshmen. (RB)

Talked books--which are not written by anybody--are superimpositions of electronic orality, writing, and print on or through one another. (RB)

A description of teaching composition in one of the most difficult of situations -- an urban commuter college -- and attempts to turn the course into a vital presence in the intellectual lives of the students. (Authors/RY)

Portion of the Final Report on The National Survey of Undergraduate Programs in English. (Editor)