One of the most valuable uses of microcomputers and word processors in composition instruction is in the teaching of writing revision. A number of activities can be carried out with these tools; for example, (1) after appropriate instruction on revision, students can be given prewritten text and asked to revise it on the word processors; (2) after…

THE BOOKLET PROVIDES WRITING ACTIVITIES TO REINFORCE ORAL EXPRESSION AND READING, WHICH ARE EMPHASIZED IN A LANGUAGE ARTS COURSE FOR NONENGLISH SPEAKING AND CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED FIRST-GRADE PUPILS. THE BOOKLET IS USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TEACHERS' MANUAL WHICH TELLS HOW THE VARIOUS EXERCISES ARE TO BE DONE. EXERCISES USE THE VOCABULARY IN…

ALTERNATIVES TO THE TRADITIONAL METHOD OF TEACHING FRESHMAN COLLEGE COMPOSITION IN A LARGE UNIVERSITY WERE TESTED IN A 4-YEAR STUDY. THIS PILOT PROJECT EXPLORED THE FEASIBILITY OF COMBINING CORRESPONDENCE METHODS WITH RESIDENT COURSES IN FRESHMAN COMPOSITION AS A MEANS OF HANDLING PROJECTED INCREASES IN ENROLLMENT AT THE COLLEGE-FRESHMAN LEVEL.…

A SEQUENTIAL AND FLEXIBLE PROGRAM IN COMPOSITION IS PRESENTED WHICH PREVENTS INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OF THE SAME SKILLS AND PLACES THE EMPHASIS ON REAL WRITING SKILLS RATHER THAN MERE MECHANICAL CORRECTNESS. THIS PUBLICATION STATES WHAT NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT TO PRODUCE SATISFACTORY WRITING AT ALL LEVELS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH COLLEGE. IT SUGGESTS AN…

Using computers to author and edit text is now feasible and economical, and this paper describes two elements of a computer-based publishing system which aids authors by automatically generating certain types of training material, and in writing easily understood text. The routines are operating on the Training and Evaluation group's minicomputer…

Linda Flowers and John Hayes have formulated a cognitive model of the composing situation, including the recursive composing process. This model has been converted into an instructional model that is appropriate for the design of instruction in writing. The instructional model incorporates three major units: task environment, composing process,…

This book, written in an informal dialogue style, develops the thesis that of all the significant forms of art and communication, language alone has remained bound by an outdated, rigid structure--"command grammar"--that inhibits thought and expression. The book explains how language may be freed through use of Neo-Narrative, an "open structure"…

This paper presents a theory of instruction in the art of rhetorical invention and provides a basis for making decisions about teaching it. Invention is the process of inquiry through which one arrives at propositions and develops arguments in support of them. The author argues that by teaching invention along with the other arts of rhetoric,…

This paper defines technical writing as writing about subjects in the sciences in which the writer informs the reader through an objective presentation of facts. The emphasis in the definition is on three aspects of writing: the writer's subject; the writer's purpose; and the writer's attitude. A stanza from Shelley's "To a Skylark" and the entry…

The Japanese syllabary of today would probably not exist in its present arrangement had it not been for Sanskrit studies in Japan. Scholars of ancient Japan extracted from the Devanagari those sounds which corresponded to sounds in Japanese and arranged the Japanese syllabary in the devanagari order. First appearing in a document dated 1204, this…