Describes how a teacher incorporated her own experience of interviewing into an assignment that required her students to conduct interviews about the importance of writing skills. (JL)

Describes five types of language research projects that enable students to examine language for themselves. (DD)

Discusses an exercise that uses science fiction to generate the interest needed to help inexperienced writers overcome their fear of research and build their research skills. (JL)

Explains how TV can be used to help students understand the general principles of research. (EL)

Describes experiences in planning and conducting a workshop that combined the teaching of writing, research, and basic photography skills. (EL)

Suggests that learning to write should be mastered before a research paper is ever assigned. Presents exercises developing student skill in using source materials to express their own ideas. (MM)

Details responses students got from an assignment in which they were required to ask questions of people in eight different occupations about the kind of writing they do in their jobs, the most important qualities of writing, and the biggest problems they see in the writing of others. (EL)