Examines cliches, vogue words, redundancies, ungrammatical constructions and lapses in style occurring in various Canadian newspapers. (HTH)

Discusses types of evaluation appropriate with elementary school writing. (AA)

Presents a procedure writing students can use, either singly or in groups, to exploit the general knowledge they have of common objects, artifacts, and institutions. Describes the use of a matrix to integrate knowledge about realms, or areas of interest, and concerns, or problems. (MM)

Introduces a teaching technique for composition in which learning occurs in an atmosphere of experimentation and imagination, in an atmosphere of the hypothetical, and in an atmosphere of discovery. (RB)

Discusses three factors that should be taken into account before a writer sets out to write an essay: audience, purpose, and personality of the writer. (AEA)

Recommends using imitative methods, including copying, to teach composition students vocabulary, spelling, sentence sense, grammar, fluency, and style. (AEA)

Presents techniques for reading and writing poetry with intermediate grade children. (AA)

Specific techniques for encouraging the writing of poetry. (AA)

Seeks to clarify the concept of writing-across-the curriculum by presenting the rationale and the theoretical basis behind it. Provides evidence of the merits of such programs, discusses opposition against them, and examines research efforts which seem to demonstrate positive attributes of such programs. (SR)

Presents a list of ways to forestall student attempts to submit "recycled" papers, including requiring in-class assignments, joint reports, copies of reports, and a filing system for student reports. (EL)

Defines different types of student journals and assesses them worth an allocation of class time based on research and samples of student work. (CRH)

Describes one method of introducing journal writing to a junior high school class and offers a number of journal writing assignments. (MM)