Discusses how writing college and job applications can serve as a tool for teaching students to write autobiographies. (MM)

Covert rehersal, which is the inner speech that prepares the student for overt expression, can be stimulated by a variety of classroom activities. Developing this facility will result in student involvement with their writing. (MM)

The author advocates and describes a composite unit on rhetorical analysis. (MM)

Ten guidelines for good journalism are drawn from the best characteristics of old and new journalism. (RN)

Shows how the Sumerian language imposed the sexagesimal character of its numeration upon the graphic system

The reactions of freshman composition classes and instructors to a set of posters with lesson texts were favorable. (MS)

Investigates the effects of four typewriter faces and handwriting on the level and reliability of grades awarded to English themes. (DG)

Concludes that the quality of grades assigned a theme is little . . . affected by typeface or by devoting one or two minutes to the reading, but . . . a theme graded later tends to be rated more leniently than a theme graded earlier." (Editor)

The 10 to 15 million adults in the United States who read below the sixth-grade level need specially written material if reading is to be a fruitful avenue of learning. (EB)

A new way to teach composition to junior and middle school students is presented. (CK)