Provides six tips for teachers to help them become helpful writing coaches to their students. (MG)

Focuses on how educators can teach writing well, with a particular emphasis upon revision. Discusses the prewriting stage, prewriting conferences, drafting, revision, directed revision practice, and evaluation. (MG)

Discusses the process of revision and the teacher's role in helping students learn to revise their writing effectively. Lists five revision principles. (MG)

Describes using meditation to write with greater concentration, continuity, and depth, at any level of writing skill. Describes how to consciously cultivate the ability to focus, follow, and trace ideas through writing. (SR)

Illustrates how electronic outlining is an easy way to empower students through the use of technology. Discusses how electronic outliners provide students with a dynamic medium for recording and organizing their ideas prior to writing. (MG)

Discusses how the computer can be used to help students learn to revise their writing through peer review, rereading their writing, and reacting and reshaping their writing in response to their peer's comments. (MG)

Describes a writing strategy that teaches students how to write a first person narrative and revise for more exact and fresh vocabulary words. (MG)

Describes how the use of whole media can cut across the curriculum, age, and cultural differences and provide students with unique opportunities to give meaning to their thoughts and ideas. (MG)

Reviews research (1) concerning the use of word processors in improving children's writing; (2) students' attitudes toward writing; and (3) how improvements in writing are measured. Notes that current research should not be accepted at face value. Argues that teachers should seek ways in which the availability of word processors can help students…

Describes a research project in which elementary students with learning disabilities participate in both individual and cooperative computer-enhanced writing sessions, using three types of topics: free choice, literature based, and fantasy based. Finds the computer-enhanced whole-language writing sessions more instructionally effective than the…

Describes a four-session workshop called "Lights, Camera, Action" in which students are videotaped as they read letters they wrote from the point of view of a character in a book. Notes a positive effect on student motivation. (MG)

Gives several ideas from four elementary and secondary teachers on improving students' writing via the use of computers. (SR)