The email received by a professor explained to him that it is worth it to praise students and encourage their best efforts to get them writing. He has decided that he will continue to praise somebody who looks uninspired.

Describes a workshop approach to teaching writing which involves peer evaluation of student papers. (DD)

Describes how a "Committee on Composition" might go about involving high school teachers in all disciplines in the teaching of writing. (DD)

Summarizes fifteen ERIC documents as these deal with the definition of technical writing and the distinction between technical and literary writing. (DD)

Presents and analyzes Judy Brown's exercises to increase innovative thinking for fiction writing. (DD)

Discusses how one teacher used word play to turn writing into an entertaining and imaginative sport. (ARH)

Suggests that students use a check list of personal interests as a source of writing topics. (DD)

Discusses how writing college and job applications can serve as a tool for teaching students to write autobiographies. (MM)

Covert rehersal, which is the inner speech that prepares the student for overt expression, can be stimulated by a variety of classroom activities. Developing this facility will result in student involvement with their writing. (MM)

The author advocates and describes a composite unit on rhetorical analysis. (MM)

An analysis and appreciation of H. L. Mencken the writer, and Henry Mencken the man. (RL)

Lists eight reasons why teachers gain from having students keep daily, in-class journals. (RL)

Reviews research in the teaching of writing, suggests appropriate ways to teach writing, and concludes that the most important thing for writing teachers to do is to find pleasure in writing themselves. (DD)

Describes how to motivate students by helping them publish their own writing or find commercial firms to publish it for them. (DD)