This issue of the "Arizona English Bulletin" includes articles concerned with philosophy, psychology, and procedure in the composition classroom at all levels of instruction. Among the topics considered are contending with critics of composition, the back-to-basics movement, the writing process, writing modules, remedial writing,…

Common approaches to composition teaching are satirized. (JH)

Since efforts to purify usage are fruitless, students should be taught to deal with the meanings in language as it is used.

This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that the testing of grammar and writing mechanics would have on the overall quality and reduction of errors in college students' essays for freshman composition. In the experimental group of 42 students, the professor assigned several exercises in grammar and mechanics as a review…

This book has a two-fold purpose: to provide lively whole class activities for teaching the Key Stage 2 sentence level objectives in England's National Literacy Strategy"Framework for Teaching"; and to explain and illustrate the varied forms which shared writing can take as a powerful medium for teaching writing. It is designed to help…

Describes a "writer's hotline" telephone program operated at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, in which English faculty address community members' writing problems. Benefits have included increased publicity for the department, improved relationships with the community, and gains in expertise in handling questions of English usage. (DF)

The author argues that grammar should not be the central concern of writing instruction. He advocates instruction focused on the "art" of writing, on the development of eloquence and style. (SJL)

Study examined relationship between use of grammatical and rhetorical skills in writing and performance in reading for children in grades 1 through 3. Apparently certain linguistic skills are common to both disciplines and these skills become more critical to both writing and reading as the child matures. (DS)

The clearest writing style is one in which the grammatical structures of a sentence most redundantly support the perceived semantic structure; a textured style is one in which the syntactic complexity invests a sentence with distinctive force. (DD)

To solve problems of authoring a finite state of automaton-FSA based intelligent computer assisted language learning system capable of automatically correcting free format English composition systems, discusses a new template-template scheme developed to simplify and streamline labor intensive input processes of the network of possible answers.…

Debate about the value of providing corrective feedback on L2 writing has been prominent in recent years as a result of Truscott's [Truscott, J. (1996). The case against grammar correction in L2 writing classes. Language Learning, 46, 327-369] claim that it is both ineffective and harmful and should therefore be abandoned. A growing body of…