Pleads for ethics as a dominant concern when teaching the informative writing process. Explores the problem of teaching ethical writing (discourse combining the best qualities of moral, intellectual, emotional, and practical character), especially regarding how generalizations are to be supported by illustrative details, evidence, and examples.…

Provides 22 "crots" (brief independent and discrete units of sentences without transitional devices) and discusses the "crot" as a rhetorical form. (DD)

Describes the "particle, wave, field" heuristic for gathering information, and shows how students can apply that heuristic in analyzing literature and in using procedures of historical criticism. (RL)

Discusses the variety of approaches to the teaching of writing and encourages teachers to ask the necessary difficult questions in designing their courses. (DD)

Reviews eight of the currently available freshman English handbooks, inspecting the section devoted to paragraphing and concluding that the inclusion of new information based on recent scholarship indicates updated methods and material throughout the text. (TO)

Reviews two textbooks designed for college composition courses. (RB)

Argues that the movie review is a useful pedagogical device in the freshman English class because it offers familiar and interesting subject matterin a brief and entertaining form. (R B)

Presents the results of a survey of the freshman composition requirements in two- and four-year Texas colleges, and examines the implications of the results. (R B)

Discusses the distinctive characteristics in teaching freshman English courses among several ivy league colleges. (MB)

Discusses a writing program that specifies a skill level which students must demonstrate before entering freshman level courses. (MB)

Relates the self-determination principles underlying the Outward Bound wilderness program to one teacher's writing instruction objectives. Describes two of the writing assignments resulting from this application. (HTH)

Describes the use of simile games to increase students' ability to use the simile as a tool in persuasive writing. (HTH)

Suggests behavioral objectives can be used to achieve humanistic goals in teaching freshman composition to college students. (RB)