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Harris, Judith – College English, 2001
Suggests that the teaching of both composition and creative writing would benefit from focusing less exclusively on the writing process and products and more on the writing subject. Claims that focusing on the writing subject through the lens of psychoanalysis provides several potential benefits. Concludes psychoanalysis can be a filtrate for the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Psychiatry, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction

Murray, Donald M. – College English, 1984
Argues that the possibility for surprise is the starting point for both effective writers and teachers and describes six elements that help create surprise: expectation, habit, ease, recognition, "pounceability," and acceptance. (MM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Creativity, Emotional Response, Higher Education

Nydahl, Joel – College English, 1990
Discusses word processing computer programs' potential to perform operations similar to those performed by computer assisted instruction (CAI). Suggests not abandoning CAI software entirely for the CAI potential of word processors. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Word Processing

Perelman, Les – College English, 1986
Asserts that the main goal of writing instruction is to help students attain the competence necessary for academic discourse and the most effective way to do this is to teach the basic strategies for uncovering the rules that govern discourse in any particular context.(SRT)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods

Thomas, Gordon P. – College English, 1986
Explores the background of "mutual knowledge"--an aspect of language theory--and modifies that notion so that it can be applied to composition theory and instruction, specifically audience analysis.
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory, Teaching Methods

Fulwiler, Toby; Petersen, Bruce – College English, 1981
Facetiously examines heuristics in mumbling, staring, moving, doodling, and noise that can be used by writing teachers to help their writing students with rhetorical invention. (RL)
Descriptors: Prewriting, Problem Solving, Questioning Techniques, Student Development

Schwartz, Helen J. – College English, 1984
Describes how teachers can use computer programs to combine the systematic coverage of a writing class with the individualization of a writing workshop. (MM)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Higher Education
Wallace, David L. – College English, 2006
The author reads five volumes of "College English" with attention to the extent to which authors account for issues of systemic difference in their writing--both in their representations of themselves as authors and in their representations of others--as one means to explore how (indeed whether) we have begun to transcend normativity in our…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Authors, Writing Processes

Ulmer, Gregory L. – College English, 1987
Presents the notion of a "textshop," which juxtaposes methods of teaching reading and writing with psychoanalysis, both of which are approached through Andre Breton's invention of surrealism. (JC)
Descriptors: College English, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Educational Theories