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Myers, Miles – English Journal, 1981
Considers the reasons for making the rhetorical choices that constitute a writer's "voice." Examines teaching models that help students learn how to influence meaning through the rhetorical choices they make. (RL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Styles, Literary Styles, Secondary Education

Gallagher, Brian – Journal of Basic Writing, 1979
Provides six propositions concerning the use of vocabulary in business writing. Suggests practical exercises for teaching these propositions to business students. (RL)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Higher Education, Language Styles
Farmer, Frank – Written Communication, 2005
This article examines the dialectical nature of Mikhail Bakhtin's developmental understanding of language learning. In particular, the author discusses the pedagogically illuminating relationship between literary style and everyday style, especially as the latter emerges from and returns to lived life. Drawing parallels with other related…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Literary Styles, Language Styles, Creative Activities
Conway, William D. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Offers examples of appropriate and improper use of the passive voice in technical communications and gives suggestions for using these examples in technical writing classrooms. (RL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Styles, Negative Attitudes, Sentence Structure
Walzer, Arthur E. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Proposes that technical writing teachers ask their students to analyze the ethos--the revelation of a writer's character through the rhetorical choices a writer makes--of the profession they are preparing to enter. Provides examples of such analysis. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Higher Education

Freedman, Carl – College English, 1981
Analyzes George Orwell's 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," to develop an argument about compositional pedagogy and the nature of writing itself. Points out the dangers of promulgating only the "plain style" of language usage and the paradoxical advantages of combining classical rhetoric with radical politics. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Language Styles, Language Usage
Linn, Michael D. – 1975
Research indicates that most blacks shift between a variety of social registers to produce inherent variability in the features of their speech, which in turn causes problems for college composition instruction. Writing teachers must avoid holding a stereotypic view of black speech, be sensitive to the varying social registers of black speech, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Rubin, Donald L.; Kantor, Kenneth J. – 1983
Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication instruction to classroom practice, this booklet focuses on how children and young adults make meaning in speech and writing and on ways teachers can encourage their language development. Following a brief introduction, the first major section of the booklet…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns
Cronnell, Bruce – 1981
This paper reviews how various nonstandard dialects of English may influence written products and how writing may be taught to speakers of such dialects. Sections of the literature review focus on the speech patterns of black English, of other English dialects, and of other languages, and on how these patterns manifest themselves in written…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns