A consideration of seven "necessary freedoms" which, the author maintains, composition classes typically do not provide for students. (RD)

Describes research, practice, and resources for giving students writing activities in several rhetorical contexts and to various audiences. (RL)

Discusses the attitudes of high school teachers and students toward "Urban English" and describes the advantages of an exchange of letters between students and their teachers. (DD)

Discusses the language experience approach to reading and writing and describes how such an approach would benefit limited and non-English speaking high school students. (DD)

Explains how an English teacher settled into an unproductive, formulaic approach to teaching writing and how he reformed himself and his teaching through a discovery of the processes involved in writing. Describes exercises and notebooks that furthered his new "process" approach to teaching writing. (TB)

Puts forth a plan for raising student consciousness about audience through peer evaluation sessions. Targets three areas of effective autobiographical writing: an engaging opening; focus; and showing, not telling. Discusses grading rubrics for these categories appropriate for student readers. (TB)

Shares how posing realistic problems with students provides them with an opportunity to value their own opinion and develop effective arguments on their position. (MG)

Offers a detailed overview of how writing portfolios raise student interest and commitment, shift some of the responsibility for assessment from the teacher to the student, and shift some of the responsibility for writing assignment ideas from the teacher to the student. Reviews specific procedures for conducting peer response workshops and for…

Media advocates too often obscure the extent to which media production is dependent on print. (JH)

Sentence combining practices works best as a skill-building adjunct to regular composition work. (JH)

Presents the results of a national survey of materials and activities used by high school English teachers. (DD)