Teachers of freshman English should demand the recognition and status of their literature-oriented colleagues. (DD)

Discusses the reasons for the incompetence of the majority of American high school, college, graduate students, and even English teachers to write easily and freely, and proposes some methods for preventing these inadequacies in the future. (AN)

Discusses a unit on technical writing which was taught as part of a high school composition course. (DD)

Explores what the author learned about teaching and the limits of language through a series of mishaps that occurred during a family move, which disrupted his assumptions and led him to question the limits of language to represent experience. Invites students to discover for themselves how representations of reality which differ from language are…

In this tale of a single event told from the perspectives of multiple narrators, Erick Gordon, Kerry McKibbin, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Ruth Vinz write about their work together on a Student Press Initiative (SPI) writing project at Horizon Academy, the Department of Correction/Department of Education high school at Rikers Island Jail in New York…

Describes an outline for evaluating student essays, involving holistic evaluation, rating of the writer's effectiveness in displaying a particular "primary trait," and rating on mechanics. (DD)

Suggests some theoretical explanations to account for the fact that some people are better able to communicate in writing than others, basing these explanations on second language acquisition research. (DD)

Records the author's experience of traversing the boundary between two different cultures, the university where she teaches and a local shelter for battered women. Examines school memories of battered women and attempts to include their voices in discussions about literacy and schooling in America. (TB)

Surveys lists of English texts approved for use in states and large city school districts and draws eight conclusions about the most commonly used composition texts. (DD)

Describes a unique program at the University of Scranton where prospective English teachers in an advanced English class served as teacher assistants in a freshman English course and benefited greatly thereby. (AN)

Describes the benefits of the Bay Area Writing Project and the excitement it has generated in a "down" period for the English teaching profession. (DD)

Focuses on the writing aspect of the language arts curriculum. Introduces six-year-old Jameel, who illustrates a critical appraisal of an enacted curriculum. Rethinks the appropriateness of tensions between "process,""skills," and "heritage." Discusses the open, reflective stance of Jameel's teacher, who illustrates…

The concept of sentence weights (the assigning of numerical scores based on hierarchical modification) seems to be a more sophisticated measure for looking at syntactic complexity than the T-Unit. (DD)