The importance of high school students having many kinds of writing experiences is stressed. These experiences include writing to" himself, for" himself, to" others, for" others, and with" others. (Author/LF)

Describes the title project and concludes that students profited both from the thematic approach and from the experience of independent study supported by individual conferences. (JB)

Designed for instruction in letter writing for secondary English classes, this article suggests that students write for free items. (DF)

Recounts one Black student's writing development during the first semester of a freshman composition course. Provides background on how the course was organized. (RL)

Provides content area teachers with teaching strategies designed to integrate writing instruction into their classes, not only to improve student writing skills but also to enhance subject matter learning. (RL)

Discusses 11 specific activities that teachers can emphasize as part of the revision process, including altering form, organizing material, creating transition, deleting material, expanding information, emphasizing ideas, subordinating ideas, creating immediacy, improving syntactic structure, improving language use, and cleaning up. (RL)

A high school English teacher with repressed urges to write reports on his self-discovery as a result of writing in class with his students. (RL)

Shows how Tim Gallwey's psychological approach to the game of tennis can be readily applied to the art of writing. (RL)

Expresses the serious problems inherent in minimum competency testing, particularly as it is used in assessing student writing ability. (RL)

Provides pertinent information on 24 journals that represent publishing opportunities for teachers of writing. (DD)

Describes 50 activity ideas and 30 topics for writing that bring career education, creative writing and composition together. (DD)

Three high school teachers describe how they changed their approaches to the teaching of composition. (DD)

Comments on 29 books and articles published in 1977-78 which may be of interest to teachers of composition. (DD)