This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effectiveness of media presentations in teaching research skills; language as a means of increasing perception; language arts curriculum planning and execution in the middle school; handwriting achievement and the visual-motor-perception abilities of first graders; a task model for the handwriting problems of the learning disabled; the effects of listening comprehension on children's reading comprehension; the performance of secretaries on job-related reading and writing tasks; an oral-aural-visual approach to writing skills development; a cognitive approach to beginning handwriting; encoding strategies in relation to vocabulary learning and recall; children's knowledge of letter names and the development of literacy; the effect of motor movement instruction on children's printscript; auditory blending as related to auditory discrimination; the relationship between auditory processing and reading achievement; the effect of synthesis-level concepts on low achievers; the relationships among various language abilities; computer materials and spelling instruction; and the educational emphasis of Mildred Agnes Dawson. (MAI)