The National Writing Project's (NWP) "30 Ideas for Teaching Writing" discusses making grammar lessons dynamic, using casual student conversation as a source for writing, home language as an assisting tool to attain standard English and other topics by presenting strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, allowing readers to benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications; a reference to the full article accompanies each highlight. Topics and associated authors include: (1) Use the shared events of students' lives to inspire writing (Debbie Rotkow); (2) Establish an email dialogue between students from different schools who are reading the same book (Karen Murar and Elaine Ware); (3) Use writing to improve relations among students (Diane Waff); (4) Help student writers draw rich chunks of writing from endless sprawl (Jan Matsuoka); (5) Work with words relevant to students' lives to help them build vocabulary (Eileen Simmons); (6) Help students analyze text by asking them to imagine dialogue between authors (John Levine); (7) Spotlight language and use group brainstorming to help students create poetry (Michelle Fleer); (8) Ask students to reflect on and write about their writing (Douglas James Joyce); (9) Ease into writing workshops by presenting yourself as a model (Glorianne Bradshaw); (10) Get students to focus on their writing by holding off on grading (Stephanie Wilder); (11) Use casual talk about students' lives to generate writing (Erin (Pirnot) Ciccone); (12) Give students a chance to write to an audience for real purpose (Patricia A. Slagle); (13) Practice and play with revision techniques (Mark Farrington); (14) Pair students with adult reading/writing buddies (Bernadette Lambert); (15) Teach "tension" to move students beyond fluency (Suzanne Linebarger); (16) Encourage descriptive writing by focusing on the sounds of words (Ray Skjelbred); (17) Require written response to peers' writing (Kathleen O'Shaughnessy); (18) Make writing reflection tangible (Anna Collins Trest); (19) Make grammar instruction dynamic (Philip Ireland); (20) Ask students to experiment with sentence length (Kim Stafford); (21) Help students ask questions about their writing (Joni Chancer); (22) Challenge students to find active verbs (Nancy Lilly); (23) Require students to make a persuasive written argument in support of a final grade (Sarah Lorenz); (24) Ground writing in social issues important to students (Jean Hicks and Tim Johnson); (25) Encourage the "framing device" as an aid to cohesion in writing (Romana Hillebrand); (26) Use real world examples to reinforce writing conventions (Suzanne Cherry); (27) Think like a football coach (Dan Holt); (28) Allow classroom writing to take a page from yearbook writing (Jon Appleby); (29) Use home language on the road to Standard English (Eileen Kennedy); and (30) Introduce multi-genre writing in the context of community service (Jim Wilcox). [This text was reprinted in 2004.]