Argues that in both collective and individualistic societies, the most crucial experience for a writer is discovering what it means to write for oneself. (MM)

Discusses the experiences of students as they try to turn pictures in their head into poetry. Describes how the poetry of popular music can provide stimulus for student poetry. (HTH)

Urges teachers to leave an expressive domain for the young child's writing, in which the audience is the young child. (DD)

A paper presented at a workshop on "Teachers Writing" at the 1976 Conference on English Education. (DD)

Children are inspired to write creatively if they are free to sensorially absorb and naturally react to the world around them. (JH)

This book, a collection of poems by adolescents and adults, is designed to offer teachers a supplement to the standard middle school and high school literature anthologies. Divided into 11 themed sections, the collection mixes more than 100 poems by students in grades 5 to 12 with more than 40 pieces by adults, including well-known writers such as…

This anthology presents excerpts from the journals of 40 of today's most noted writers, along with their comments on the role of journal-keeping in creating their art. Besides being generally instructional to other writers and a lesson in how to create a personal journal, the anthology is a look at writers in the midst of creating. It includes…

This book offers an entire year of journaling ideas--some serious, some "silly," but all tied to the calendar year. In fact, the book's sections are the months of the year. Each idea in the book comes with a fact-filled introduction and aims to prove that writing does not have to be boring or dull. As a special feature, many entries in…

Intended for anyone who wants to write poetry (and do it well), this guide provides the "nuts and bolts" of craft and process, as well as the sources of inspiration. The guide contains brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing; each essay is followed by distinctive writing exercises. Included…

Traumatic life events are stressful and when coupled with decreased emotional expression they can have deleterious effects on a person's psychological and physical health. The empirical literature on programmed assignments, specifically Programmed Writing (PW) as a therapeutic intervention, was examined for its potential as a means to facilitate…

A study analyzed children's compositions from grades 1-4 in Slovenian schools. Children described real places within the framework of an experientially provable world, which is empirically available to them within the limits of their abilities and possibilities. Irreal places were described inventively without the support of experience, although…

This article tells the story of a writer for whom "voice" is an important element that he feels he once had but has lost in his writing. The article mostly places the blame on his trying to please teachers and professors and listening to their comments about his writing. It quotes many scholars (such as Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner)…

Noting that traditional approaches to biology education do not take full advantage of the narrative nature of biology when introducing students to its subject matter, this paper argues that students in biology courses could benefit from being asked to write narratives and that this activity could fit into either a fairly traditional curriculum or…

In this article, the author of several PM Story Books (used in schools with 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds who are learning to read) discusses components of those books which she believes makes them successful. It attributes the success of these books to the following 4 ingredients: (1) traditional story structure having the elements of a central…