A questionnaire survey of students in basic English courses on the McKeesport campus of Pennsylvania State University revealed how students respond to teacher comments on their compositions, and how teachers can write more effective comments. (DD)

Ken Macrorie's "Uptaught" advocates a student-centered approach to writing which focuses too much attention on self analysis and exploration, and not enough attention on values beyond the self. (D D)

Presents an introduction to social construction and offers a bibliographical guide to such texts. Recommends general and community specific accounts, defines social constructionist thought in literary criticism and literary history, mentions composition studies, and comments on the impact of social construction in education. (JK)

Examines the scene of writing as an artifact of literary modernism and uses this examination as a basis for challenging common conceptions of writers and writing. Argues that the success of curriculum reform movements in the field of composition depend on revising this iconic view of writing to accommodate students and teachers. (JD)

Describes and laments over the problems of working writing centers on college campuses, including misinformed students and faculty, the lack of adequate facilities, and the lack of professional respect. (CRH)

Composition teachers should recognize that all errors in student writing are not the same. The author distinguishes between handbook rules, spoken language, and ambiguity. (MM)

Explains specific writing strategies that teachers from other disciplines have used effectively in their classes. Describes the interdisciplinary project from which these strategies evolved. Focuses on designing writing assignments linked to course objectives and responding to student writing for its value as discovery learning. (RL)

Urges that college composition students' critical thinking skills be refined so that they may analyze and reject the influence of mass culture. (DD)

A composition course is described in which students are encouraged to explore metaphorical expressions in a variety of media. (JH)

Correction and discussion of student papers in small teacher-led groups is an effective alternative to the teacher's reading and correcting all papers. (JH)

Literary critical prose is a specialized, artifical mode of discourse, and it is a poor model for students trying to learn to write well. (JH)

Urges the use of new developments in structuralist and poststructuralist theory as the basis for a new practice in the teaching of composition. (CRH)

Descriptions of the activities in various sections of an experimental course in freshman English during the fall semester of 1967. (RD)