Suggests that student's expression in composition will improve by daily journal writing. (HOD)

Specific exercises focusing on only one aspect of poetry at a time can help alleviate students' fears and give them a measure of creative involvement. (Editor)

Presents a sample of short writing assignments flowing from carefully prepared lessons that isolate specific learnings, guide processes closely, and appeal to student interests. (RB)

Describes typical sentence, paragraph, and discourse level sentence combining exercises using material appropriate for technical writers. (HTH)

Describes a poetry writing exercise that used photographs as a stimulus. Presents some poems produced by this exercise. (JL)

Recommends using young adult literature to teach basic composition skills. (JL)

Describes a heuristic for writing about literature, especially drama and fiction. Questions from the heuristic cover character, plot, setting, and literary devices. (HTH)

Discusses length and speed, spontaneity, and discipline as the attributes that affect creative writing assignments, students' development as creative writers, and appropriate methods of teaching creative writing. (RL)

Shows how cloze procedure can be used in teaching writing as well as reading. Contains examples of cloze passages. (HTH)

The author uses a hypothetical contest situation to generate student interest in collecting, evaluating, and organizing information. (RL)

Summarizes a series of four class sessions in which students write and rewrite an analysis of advertisements together. (TJ)

Explains an exercise in which logical relationships are isolated in order to help students discover how to choose their material for paragraphs. (TJ)

A poet relates her personal writing problems, which she resolved by completing some of the assignments she had used in her classes. (RL)