Describes using the beginning of a Western story in a story completion exercise to stimulate writing. (TJ)

Describes an advanced expository writing class set up as a quarter-long "survival game," the object of which is to write 7,000 words of satisfactory prose and receive an A for the course. (JM)

Relates a two-part writing assignment for the study of poetry, in which students are assigned to write a critique in response to a particular question and are then asked to give a personal response. (TJ)

Suggests encouraging students to use three or four steps to disintegrate their original objective descriptions of an event in a novel as a way to experiment with writing and to develop some critical observations about the author's fictional world. (TJ)

Suggests a short library assignment researching journal articles pertaining to a student's major or vocational interest as a way to encourage exploration of the library, prepare students for writing more lengthy papers, and introduce students to a variety of material related to specific subjects. (TJ)

Suggests the use of a chart to help students learn to use apostrophes correctly. (TJ)

Suggests a way to motivate students' writing and thinking by having them react to critics of novels, plays, or short stories. (TJ)

Recommends a process by which students learn to revise their own papers using a series of guidelines and questions. (TJ)

Describes a method for teaching composition which develops students' intellectual and literary skills. (RB)

Details the components of a two-part, two-week assignment in the writing of description which gives the students a chance to work on both observation and order. (JM)

Describes a writing exercise that requires students to solve a murder mystery and persuade their readers that their solution is the correct one. (FL)

Suggests a method using mathematics to help students begin to understand how they can recognize their own opinion and claim credit for it. (TJ)

Suggests two exercises in writing a research paper: compare two biographies of one person, and discuss a problem about the truth of an incident in the person's life, citing positive and negative points of view. (TJ)

Reports on a case study in which the teacher spent considerable time working individually with a tenth-grade student whose attitude toward her own writing developed throughout the sessions. It was concluded that individual instruction is of exceptional importance. (JM)