Reviews the present status of the categories developed by the Writing Research Unit at the University of London for classifying discourse function. (HOD)

Investigates whether students could more easily remember synthetic words by rehearsing with definitions, examples, or sentence composing. Concludes that students who used sentence composing performed better on a posttest than those who had rehearsed using examples and definitions. (SRT)

Presents an annotated bibliography of research materials of special interest to English teachers. Material is divided into four main sections: writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (AEW)

Contains annotations describing research conducted in the following areas: writing (contexts, status surveys, instruction, processes, text analysis, assessment, rhetoric, writing and learning), language (processing, development, interrelationships, language and schooling), literature, and teacher education. (HOD)