This article examines relationships in the writing process and offers some strategies to address student needs on both the cognitive and affective domains.

The ancient literary form of commonplace books offers rich possibilities to students and teachers of English in Australian schools in the 21st century. By briefly tracing early uses of commonplace books and examining contemporary approaches to the teaching of writing, this paper re-imagines the 15th century commonplace book as a personal learning…

To clarify the role of desire in discursive practice, this article examines rhetorical theories of genre and Lacanian theories of the unconscious. The former, it is argued, might be refined to shed more light on actors' unconscious investments in and resistance to the desires maintained by genres. The latter, meanwhile, might be refined to address…

Most students avoid the reflective nature the writing process requires. Their resistance to meta-cognition, thinking about one's thinking, often means they are incapable of capitalizing on their strengths or improving upon their weaknesses. The author believes students who are familiar with writers' lives and habits will be that much more…

The pedagogical principle of experiential learning embodied in the oral interpretation of literature through Readers' Theater provides an avenue to accomplish a seemingly daunting task. Students' participation in reading, interpreting, discussing, writing, assessing, and performing their own creative responses to a literary work promotes a…

Contemplates how Northrop Frye, a serious man, displayed great confidence that there is a group of those who have seriously studied literature who know that this study is coherent and progressive and who have a sense of the unity of the subject. Suspects that many do not know or no longer know this sense unity of the subject and have to posit it…

Describes recent critical and theoretical works dealing with the topic of narrative and storytelling. Provides citations and brief annotations of 13 works. (HB)

Discusses the preparation and empowerment of teachers to engage in transactional strategy instruction. Reviews current research and practice relevant to transactional strategy instruction. Considers students' motivations to learn and cognitive strategy instruction beyond reading and writing. (HB)

Because only 10 percent of students admitted to the University of Washington through the Educational Opportunity Program were able to graduate from the university, a basic writing course using literature to develop students' academic thinking skills was developed. Literature to which students could relate more easily, such as "Farewell to…

Offers a review of various veins of thought related to writing instruction such as traditional grammar and rhetoric, discourse processes and cognitive science, and discourse form and sociolinguistics. (SRT)

Discusses the concept of writing as a mode of learning and critiques the write-to-learn model of writing theory. Reviews 35 research studies on the topic and concludes that they do not provide empirical proof of writing as a mode of learning. Describes other modes of learning that the model ignores. (HB)

Argues that composition teachers need to know, as opposed to teach, a good deal about basic logic, both formal and informal, specifically about the paradigm of argumentation--including the limitations of formal logic. (EL)

Examines Plato's characteristics of ideas and guidelines for definitions in rhetorical arguments. Discusses several classroom assignments based on Platonic rhetoric with emphasis on definitions. (HTH)

Describes a writing instruction project called the "landmark method" that fosters writing skills in students with learning disabilities. Outlines specific strategies that have proven effective in teaching writing to students with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. (HB)

Draws an analogy between reading and writing, and between reading and responding to the world. Concludes that reading, like writing and responding to the world around us, is revisionary. (MS)