Argues that students can use electronic bulletin boards to create a single shared text that can be added to as personal time allows. Notes that use of electronic bulletin boards allows valuable class time to be set aside for other instructional strategies. (RS)

Argues that low-cost speech synthesizers used to read drafts back to students are potentially valuable aids to revision. Suggests possible classroom applications, and describes the kinds of assistance synthesizers offer writers while still allowing them to diagnose problems and to formulate their own plans for revision. (KEH)

Reports on computer applications for teaching writing and literature. Reviews typical programs, their characteristic capabilities, their limitations, and their dangers. Suggests ways of acquiring computers, evaluating them, integrating them into educational settings, and developing personalized programs. (RL)

One of nine brief guides for special educators on using computer technology, this guide focuses on the use of computers to improve skills and attitudes in writing instruction. Pre-writing tools such as group brainstorming, story webs, free-writing, journal entries, and prewriting guides help generate ideas and can be carried out either on or off…

This report presents first year (1984-85) findings of The Writing Project, a 2-year school-based study of the use of word processing to improve learning-disabled children's writing skills. Emphasis is on how remedial teachers can integrate computers into their writing activities in resource rooms and classrooms. Based in three Massachusetts school…

Briefly outlines how computers can be useful in teaching nine different subjects and in managing the central office. (JM)

Written from a variety of perspectives, the 13 articles in this journal issue focus on the use of the computer in teaching English. Specific topics discussed in the articles are as follows: the era of the microcomputer, by R. Baird Shuman; pedagogical issues involving computers, by Duane Roen and Margaret Fleming; computer rhetoric at the…