Describes how Nassau Community College uses peer tutors to help students with severe writing problems. (DD)

Describes a pilot study which indicated that high school and college teachers of composition are not knowledgeable about the historical and theoretical bases of their discipline. (DD)

Chronicles the development of an English doctoral program which emphasized both literary study and the teaching of reading and writing. (DD)

Argues that a writing-across-the-curriculum program should be designed, administered, and taught equally by all departments in a university. Stresses the importance of developing a dialogic program, with creative interaction between faculty members from various disciplines and between students and professors. (ARH)

Sketches a method of using cassette cartridges to correct college freshman compositions. (RB)

A report drafted for the Rhetoric Executive Committee, University of Iowa. (Author/RD)

Points out problems and complications of dealing with plagiarism. Argues that while teaching students to write, teachers should also try to encourage them to commit themselves to intellectual inquiry and originality. (JL)

Offers rules and comments for using discourse analysis to teach student writers how to convert incoherent compositions into coherent, cohesive prose. (RL)

Tracing the literature on writing conferences during four tension points in higher-education enrollments--the 1890s, the 1930s, the 1950s, and the 1970s--the author suggests that conferences have been championed primarily at those moments when students were both more numerous and more diverse, an urge countered, however, by faculty working…

Deprived of a given world an author can assume he shares with his readers, an author today is thereby also deprived of a given rhetoric and must create his own. (JH)

No one should be allowed to teach English until he has mastered the fundamentals of social and regional dialectology. (JH)

Describes the obstacles facing hearing-impaired people as they attempt to learn to write and suggests ways to implement a college program to bridge the gap between natural Sign Language and English. (DD)