Describes a series of problems based on transformational grammar which are helpful in teaching students how to write. (DD)

Describes a classroom experiment in which tenth grade students read and analyzed works of romantic fiction and then wrote their own romantic novel synopsis modeled on their readings. (DD)

Describes efforts and results of teaching students to write free verse by recasting old poems, e.g., taking a poem heavy with rhyme, meter, and inversions and modernizing it freely using some of the techniques of free verse. (HOD)

Suggests a way to stimulate students' interest in writing that involves learning trivia about famous people and integrating it into classroom lectures in the form of anecdotes. (SRT)

Describes an exercise in which students cut out T-shirt drawings, sort the T-shirts into groups, and "write" a classification essay by pasting the T-shirts on sheet of paper. The T-shirts in each group become the examples used in one body paragraph of the classification essay. (HTH)

Describes an activity in which students must invent graffiti that might have been written by one of the characters studied in the class's literature assignments. (HTH)

Describes a practical freshman composition writing assignment in which students composed career profiles of notable alumni, which were subsequently used by the college career planning and placement office. A sample letter and profile are included. (HTH)

Lists eight ways to develop a topic for a composition. (DF)

A teacher at a junior college with a high percentage of Chicano students finds that a buddy system" approach to in-class writing improves student motivation and writing skills. (MN)

Data in this study are from a research project conducted to fulfill the requirements of the PE.D. degree at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Offers writing assignments and exercises for students in grades one through eight. (HOD)

Presents opposing views on the wisdom of teaching student writers to write for an "audience." (JL)

Insists upon the importance of poetry and provides a procedure for introducing both students and teachers to the writing and appreciation of poems. (JL)

Represents an exchange of "official notices" on the uses and misuses of workbooks in the teaching of writing. (MKM)