Discusses some basic linguistic concepts as they relate to the teaching of composition courses. (TO)

Provides 22 "crots" (brief independent and discrete units of sentences without transitional devices) and discusses the "crot" as a rhetorical form. (DD)

Discusses the variety of approaches to the teaching of writing and encourages teachers to ask the necessary difficult questions in designing their courses. (DD)

Reviews eight of the currently available freshman English handbooks, inspecting the section devoted to paragraphing and concluding that the inclusion of new information based on recent scholarship indicates updated methods and material throughout the text. (TO)

Lists several research resources and discusses some implications of research for the teaching of writing. (TO)

Argues that peer tutoring is a teaching technique of undeniable but limited usefulness to writing instructors. (RL)

Shows how knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experience acquired in a literary education apply to the teaching of composition. Advocates adapting the method of literary criticism into an "editing" approach to evaluating writing which includes understanding the text and its potential, diagnosing problems, and intervening constructively. (RL)

Points out that teaching technical writing to students whose specialties differ can be more interesting than teaching the conventional composition courses. (RB)

Argues that compositions teachers need to develop an epistemology--as pragmatic as is possible--which asks how the composing process is an act of knowing. (R B)

Argues that the movie review is a useful pedagogical device in the freshman English class because it offers familiar and interesting subject matterin a brief and entertaining form. (R B)

Presents the results of a survey of the freshman composition requirements in two- and four-year Texas colleges, and examines the implications of the results. (R B)

Analyzes the results of a survey of freshman composition requirements infour-year private colleges. (R B)

Suggests several ways to help students understand why they write and to teach them something about how to write. (TO)

Proposes a freshman composition class writing assignment in which students plan, conduct, and write up an interview of an adult friend or relative, focusing on one stage or event in that person's life. (RL)

Describes a method for teaching students in college composition courses how to construct a paragraph. (RB)