Discusses learning theories as they apply to a description of courses offered for teachers to improve their writing and consequently their writing instruction. Covers some of the important personal and professional outcomes of the writing courses, and resulting changes in teaching practices. (HTH)

Examines composition research in the annotated bibliographies appearing from December 1984 to May 1989 in the journal "Research in the Teaching of English." Considers the question of what has been learned from this large corpus of research. Focuses on topics on which little research has been done and areas in which enough work has…