Describes a technique for teaching the research paper in the college composition course. (DD)

Presents and analyzes Judy Brown's exercises to increase innovative thinking for fiction writing. (DD)

Shows how students can be taught to recognize their own values and become sensitive to the values of others as expressed in their writing. (DD)

Although college English teachers train students to produce "literature," most professional writing in America does not fall in this category. (DD)

Defends the use of complex Chinese characters and criticizes the use made of his previous paper in an article by C. Cheng in this journal advocating the teaching of simplified characters. (CHK)

Contends that the City University of New York, during its open admissions period (1969-1976), employed a hidden tracking system to make proletarian students conform to the capitalist system. (DD)

Describes the thoughts of a writing teacher whose grading practices were guided at various stages by John Stuart Mill, the book of Genesis, and Mark Twain. (KS)

Presents ideas for teaching the basics. Includes recipes for writing from children's books, a sequential metric program and a discussion of refining the interview process. (JMB)

Discusses the five studies conducted to date on the relationship between formal grammar instruction and student writing skills, concluding that new studies need to be done and the old studies need to be duplicated. (DD)

Describes several exercises useful in helping students learn to revise when they write poetry. (DD)

Describes and defends a composition course based on a thematic study of the world of work. (DD)

Reveals Woody Allen's attitudes about childhood, reading, writing, literature, and the movies. (KS)

Discusses the speech ghostwriting course inaugurated at the Florida State University College of Communication, citing course objectives, teaching methods and course success. (MH)

Children must develop a sense of audience, learn what writing is for, evaluate their own writing, and have a self-felt purpose for writing. (DD)

Describes and defends Koch's approach to teaching students how to write poetry. (DD)