Every student should be encouraged to read and write and critically view the pursuits that matter to him. The effective way of teaching English language to the students is to affirm their use of language, which will help them in assuming that teachers have the time to listen and the disposition to hear them and that they care about individual…

Information is provided on state and regional language arts periodicals. (JH)

Urges teachers to set up a program for testing writing which uses holistic scoring. (DD)

Suggests several strategies for developing students' social awareness and moral thinking by encouraging sensitivity to audience in their writing. (DD)

Vincent Wixon and Pat Stone suggest ways to adapt the Talk-Write approach to the teaching of writing so that it can be used in the middle school or junior high. (DD)

Examines definitions of written fluency, methods used to promote fluency, and some of the problems inherent in the approaches. Topics discussed include writing process, modeling, metacognition, and developmental studies. Concludes that written fluency is a multi-dimensional concept involving a range of strategies, their organization, and…

Reflects on personal existential familiarity and application of old ways of teaching to produce "nothing new" but rather something effective by letting students find their own lamps and their own solutions to writing problems. (JK)

Recounts how students at Rutgers (New Jersey) Preparatory School used journal writing to explore their feelings about the disruption in their academic life caused by a fire that destroyed much of their school. (RBW)

Describes a writing assignment in which students wrote letters from their seventeen-year-old selves addressed and directed to their selves of the year 2000. (Author/MB)

CEHAE is an acronym for concept, example, highlighting, activity, and evaluation. (MB)

Describes student responses to quarterly composition tests. (SW)

Reports on writing research about revision. Notes the implications of this writing research for classroom applications. (RL)

Presents arguments for and against a policy requiring all English teachers to "publish or perish." (RL)