Outlines the stages of the composing process, differentiating between those of skilled and unskilled writers. Provides a list of suggestions for elementary school writing instruction. (HTH)

Examines the changes in the successive attempts by E. B. White to complete the manuscript for "Charlotte's Web." (HOD)

Examines the reading and writing processes and their interdependence and urges the language arts instructor to be an audience for children's writing and to help them become aware that what they read is someone else's writing. (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)

Discusses stories that show the actual processes and satisfactions of writing that can serve as models to promote children's writing interest and skills. (HTH)

Presents and discusses research on the intellectual processes that writers engage in to attain what is commonly called "audience awareness." (RL)

Reviews research studies on the nature of children's understanding of the writing process and how teachers can better help children learn to write. (HTH)

Invites a different look at metaphorical abstraction in hopes of raising realizations about language processes, writing processes, and the mental activities involved in both. (RL)

Examines how children develop as writers and presents new ways of looking at children's problem solving in what they do and say during the writing process. Presents an outline of the general orders of child focus in the writing process. (HTH)

Examines the evidence for both the linguistic and rhetorical hypotheses about writers' planning and presents new research on episodic patterns within the writing process itself. Uses protocol analysis to look at the content and nature of writers' plans. (HOD)

Surveys rhetorical invention in current theoretical terms. Suggests that all invention requires the location of "differences" within a structure of free play imposed by the mind. Presents some important links between invention, J. Derrida's concept of "difference," and K. Burke's idea of eloquence. (RL)

Relates one participant's impressions of an international conference on writing that was held in May 1979 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Notes the differences between American and British writing research. (RL)

The author uses introspection to consider the critical aspects of the writing process. (RL)

Examined the effectiveness of repertory grids in assessing cognitive complexity as a correlate of creativity. Literary personnel and audiovisual representatives completed grids. Significant differences were found between creative writers and their literary controls; the grids failed to discriminate between greater and lesser creativity in the…

Discusses 11 specific activities that teachers can emphasize as part of the revision process, including altering form, organizing material, creating transition, deleting material, expanding information, emphasizing ideas, subordinating ideas, creating immediacy, improving syntactic structure, improving language use, and cleaning up. (RL)