Reviews developments in composition in light of the current lack of attention to contexts for writing, proposes a conversational model for the interplay of reading and writing, and explores the implications of the model for teaching. (DD)

Describes how to teach college composition through individual conferences with students. (DD)

Questions the current expectation that writing theory will serve pedagogy in direct, immediate ways, because of the extraordinary variety and complexity of the writing process. (DD)

A dialogue with a soul in Purgatory which points out that people write to make things real. (DD)

Describes an interdisciplinary program in writing approved by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Colorado. (DD)

Discusses the controversy of mistrusting memory. Considers how the body gives form to memorial categories whose manifestation emerges in the metaphors of everyday use. Shows that the conception of memory model bears no relationship to a faculty that the brain sciences now conceive as a dynamic maker of meaning defined by temporality and…

Increasingly, autistic students are attending college, posing new challenges to writing instructors. In particular, such students may have trouble imagining readers' responses to their texts. Developing an appropriate pedagogy for these students may involve revisiting composition studies' tradition of cognitive research, while not abandoning more…

Writing classes should provide students with an opportunity to consciously define and explore their values. (DD)

Students need desks of their own in their homes in order to have a focus, an organizing principle for their writing. (DD)

Describes an approach to teaching writing which involves helping students to become aware of the sound of their voices on paper. (DD)

Describes an approach to teaching freshman composition which begins with the study of the power of words. (DD)

Describes an approach to writing based on students' examination of social relationships. (DD)

Although college English teachers train students to produce "literature," most professional writing in America does not fall in this category. (DD)

Contends that the City University of New York, during its open admissions period (1969-1976), employed a hidden tracking system to make proletarian students conform to the capitalist system. (DD)

Describes several exercises useful in helping students learn to revise when they write poetry. (DD)