Describes a method of teaching composition in which the teacher and the class collaborate on specific writing assignments such as books, pamphlets, short stories, or collections of poetry. (RB)

Describes a writing exercise for use in a remedial writing laboratory. (RB)

Discusses the researched article as an alternative to the research paper and provides guidelines for students to follow in writing a query letter which sells the idea for the article. (RB)

Exercises in sketching a scene of words, focusing, describing elemental structure (using comparison, contrast, analogy, and antithesis), and sketching and writing about still-life arrangements can heighten students' awareness of sense impressions and lead to improved writing skills. (TJ)

Describes a writing exercise in which students write letters to a variety of people. (TJ)

Describes an exercise that encourages writing by students. Each student is given a limited amount of time to write about anything that comes to mind, the papers are redistributed and a second student adds to what has been written, a third student adds more, and a fourth student writes a conclusion. (TJ)

Describes the use of a popular magazine column to stimulate discussion and to motivate writing using specific marriage difficulties as input. This technique affords opportunities for role play, short story writing, and letter writing. (TJ)

Presents a writing exercise which stimulates college freshmen's imaginations and suits adolescents' interest in a favorite subject for composition--themselves. (JM)

Suggests that students need to become aware of the relationship between one's writing and one's intended audience and presents a way for students to make this analysis. (JM)

Suggests motivating writing apprehensive students by asking them to "remodel" passages from novels, magazines, or newspapers that have been stripped of details, descriptions, and compound sentences. (HTH)

Presents worksheets formulated for high school juniors and seniors to help them learn rules for punctuation. (HTH)

Presents a rationale and framework for teaching values using quality works of literature. (HTH)

Suggests teaching characterization in literature classes by having students write an advertisement similar to the Dewar's scotch advertisement, based on each of the characters in the novel "Ordinary People." Examples are included. (HTH)

Describes a lesson designed to lead students to explore the language structure of the language rather than merely memorize grammatical rules. (FL)