Includes a sequence of questions and answers used to help one identify, define, limit, and analyze a topic prior to asserting a personal point of view about it in writing. (RD)

Examines the sentence-based pedagogies that arose in composition during the 1960s and 1970s (the generative rhetoric of Francis Christensen, imitation exercises, and sentence-combining) and attempts to discern why these three pedagogies have been so completely elided within contemporary composition studies. Concludes that this erasure of sentence…

Suggests clustering can help students of any ability level draw upon latent images and ideas, generate more original sentences, and experiment with metaphor and simile. (MS)

Common approaches to composition teaching are satirized. (JH)

Describes the use of a succession of freshman English assignments that begins with a paper not based on research and concludes with a paper based on extensive research, designed to prepare students for term paper assignments. (HTH)

Describes a course in which students first research a magazine'' and then submit their writing for publication. (SP)

One can learn a great deal about teaching composition by writing the essays he assigns to students to write. (JH)

Suggests an alternative understanding of imitation, according to which a student learns by imitating another person, rather than a text or process. Proposes that composition teaching works when it effectively models an identity which students can accept. (MS)