A survey of 425 high school journalism students indicated that these students considered journalism education as an opportunity for learning to improve their writing. These results indicate that journalism education should be taken more seriously as a necessary part of the high school English curriculum. (RL)

Describes how one biology instructor utilizes freewriting and expressive writing activities as part of his daily lessons. Argues that such a method has increased student interest and productivity and has engaged the teacher more solidly into the content of the course. (HB)

Considers the role of high school English teachers as preparing students to do college writing. Discusses and challenges the dichotomy of academic versus personal or expressive writing. Argues that writing instruction must assume that student writing skills mature through the assignment of a variety of writing tasks. (HB)

English departments need to develop an honest diversity of writing programs, identifying the unique values of different approaches. (JH)

Of the various unrelated approaches used in advanced college composition courses, one has proved especially successful in encouraging professionalism in student writers: an approach in which students are required to write for and submit their work to professional publications. When students write articles, they deal with many rhetorical modes and…

This report describes the rationale, implementation, and results of an experimental ninth-grade composition program in which students from three classes worked through activities that use different media to help them communicate effectively in narration, exposition, and critical analysis. Sentence combining was included as a part of the program. A…

DELIBERATIONS BEGUN AT A CONVENTION IN 1966 AND REFINED AT THE 1967 "SCHOLAR'S SEMINAR" IN LOUISVILLE, BOTH SPONSORED BY THE CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION, RESULTED IN THIS PUBLISHED "STATEMENT" WHICH URGES RESEARCH AND STUDY OF THE "DEEPER ASPECTS OF COMPOSING." THE REPORT BRIEFLY PRESENTS SEVERAL ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO…

An experimental, non-credit program of composition was introduced at Marist College in 1964. A description is given of this one-semester program in which the student writes six papers on topics assigned not by his composition advisor but by his course instructors in the six subjects he is studying that semester. The reasons for adopting this…

The three essays and two appendixes comprising this study describe the author's attempts to develop his own approach to the teaching of writing to university freshmen, his thoughts on the training of teachers of writing for the secondary schools, and his experiments with broadening the concept of composition in a technological age to include…

This curriculum unit, developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, is intended for use with fifth and sixth graders as a guide for writing. Included are discussions of the various marks of punctuation and the rules for using them, the use of capitals, writing dialog and paragraphs, and the mechanics of letter writing. The guide can be used…

An approach to teaching descriptive writing and its values are discussed. Benefits derived from a descriptive writing unit are said to be the following: (1) Descriptive writing is fun; (2) It enables the instructor to demonstrate that the first word that pops into the writer's mind is often not the best one; (3) There is no easier way in which to…

A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO BETTER MOTIVATE AVERAGE STUDENTS IN READING AND WRITING WAS ADDED TO THE CURRICULUM OF A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. BASED ON SATURATION AND DIFFUSION OF MATERIALS, THE PROGRAM UTILIZED SUCH MATERIALS AS JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, AND THEME WRITING IN ACADEMIC CLASSROOMS OTHER THAN ENGLISH. THE OUTCOME WAS GREATER MOTIVATION ON…

Reports on the composition program at a New Jersey high school and on faculty members' viewpoints about goals and problems in the teaching of writing skills. (GW)