This guide for pre-registration in English classes in 1974-75 outlines the steps for selecting courses from both the required and elective offerings and describes each of the elective subjects. Some of the elective courses available from the total list of 36 include "Writer's Workshop,""Reading Improvement,""Newspaper Production,""Literature of…

Three special English courses have been developed to help poorly prepared native University of Alaska freshmen whose three major groups--Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians--embrace a variety of linguistic backgrounds: (1) a course for students more fluent in English which uses English as a Second Language techniques, (2) a writing course which prepares…

The purposes of this study were to identify and enumerate essential concepts in composition, to analyze recommendations related to the role and status of composition in the high school curriculum and to the academic and professional preparation of composition teachers, to analyze extant programs of instruction in eleventh-grade composition in…

This book attempts to give a new dimension to James Moffett's philosophy on using drama combined with the small group process as the primary basis for the teaching of language arts. The main goal of the book, therefore, is to provide the teacher with practical, proven ideas and techniques for individualizing the language arts. The first section,…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem of designing instruction in the process of composing. The scope of the study is limited to one kind of writing (the short, autobiographical narrative) and to one kind of instruction (a self-instructional program, developed by means of discrimination programing). Subjects for the study were…

The monograph is a complete outline for a program designed to help English departments institute logical and fair procedures for grading student essays. The contents in this monograph include "Factors in Judgments of Writing Ability,""The Effect of Bias,""Measuring Improvement in Writing,""Personal vs Staff Grading,""Standard Scores for Test…

This book contains a collection of articles written by teachers who, according to some of their students, really taught them how to write. The articles describe classroom methods for teaching composition that have actually worked for both teachers and students. Aimed particularly at English teachers in grades 10-12 the book includes specific…

Although speech and writing both contain functional varieties as well as many similar mechanical aspects, mature writing contains a number of conventions (words, idioms, constructions) rarely found in mainstream native speech. Among areas of contrast are vocabulary, syntactic constructions--especially punctuation--and the more complex use of…

Prepared at the University of Guam, this manual for preservice and inservice English teachers focuses on the background and theory of written composition and on rhetoric in a broad sense. It is divided into the following chapters: "Introduction," which covers definition and departments; "Composition and Rhetoric--A History"; "Arrangement," which…

The purposes of this study were to see if an objective composition test could be constructed that would correlate positively with grades on written compositions and to investigate the effects of native language background and total language proficiency on written composition skills. The objective composition test that was constructed consisted of…

Surveying the current scene in the teaching of composition at the elementary level, this leaflet examines the results of recent research, the materials produced by four curriculum centers, and the opinions of respected authorities in English. It then describes some of the newer teaching practices stimulated by the recent emphasis on the individual…

Modern rhetoricians have begun to redefine basic structural units by observing and analyzing the process of formation, for example, sentences and paragraphs. Writing is beginning to be understood as a series of commitments and responses. Student exercises that objectify the vital concepts of form and organization in writing utilize rearrangement…

This study was conducted to determine the effects of peer editing/grading of themes on grammar-usage and theme-writing ability of students enrolled in freshman level college composition courses. Fifty students, equally divided into experimental and control groups, completed two forms of the Language Knowledge Test (LKT), one as a pretest and one…

The articles and authors featured in this issue are: "Preparing for Future Shock in English and Reading Instruction" by James R. Squire, "Great Expectations: Communicative Arts in the High School; or, Resetting the Clocks" by R. W. Reising and R. J. Rundus, "Some Expectations in English for College Freshmen" by May Jane Tillman, "The Role of the…

This book is an account of one teacher's attempt to use English literature as a vehicle of self-discovery for both his adolescent students and himself. The first chapter, "Stumbling into New Techniques," relates some of the techniques used to encourage student writing and to stimulate an appreciation and understanding of poetry--to help…