Describes a collaborative effort among New York high school and college teachers, administrators, and students to improve writing skills. Discusses the project format and the writing/reading and writing instruction principles underlying the program. (HTH)

Separate articles describe courses designed to teach basic writing to academically underprepared college students. Six courses are described: a program which teaches students how to reason correctly, on the premise that students cannot write if they cannot think; a course which teaches academically underprepared black students how language…