Describes the power of adult writing groups to stimulate learning and encourage language development, personal development, and writing skill development. (CRH)

Reviews current research in the teaching of English in Australia and concludes that there is a large volume of highly relevant research and that a way must be found to disseminate it to potential clientele. (DF)

With 138 sites nationwide and over 70,000 teachers participating each year, the National Writing Project offers readily available opportunity for improved writing instruction. Essentially a staff-development program, the project is based on the belief that the key agent in educational change is the teacher. (Author/MLW)

Teachers Teaching Writing, a new series of videotapes, that presents outstanding teachers in their own classrooms is described. The complete writing process is traced from beginning to end in such a way as to make sense to the viewer and be true to the principles of effective composition instruction. (MLW)

Research on the communication demands that local industries require of technicians and the writing responsibilities of the technicians are described. Responses from a questionnaire and information from personal interviews are included. (MLW)

Notes that while the importance of writing instruction and the development of better newswriters is a key concern of the journalism profession, journalism texts and journals show little awareness of advances in the composition field, such as process instruction, epistemology, invention, and revision. (HTH)

Describes a proposed curriculum, designed to address the needs and interests of women prisoners, with the goal of improving their writing skills before they enroll in college courses. The course is constructed around a schedule of three one-hour sessions per week and emphasizes composition and the mechanics of writing via sentence-combining…

Argues that composition teachers need to know, as opposed to teach, a good deal about basic logic, both formal and informal, specifically about the paradigm of argumentation--including the limitations of formal logic. (EL)

Explains that the current journal issue focuses on the importance of editing and the similarity of editor/writer and teacher/student relationships. (DF)

The programing process is similar to methods employed in writing a composition. The author, in each case, must understand the subject, know the audience, outline material, and make revisions until the finished product works flawlessly. English instructors could teach programing and free math instructors to teach mathematics. (MBR)

Presents ideas for the prospective writer such as recording ideas, keeping a diary, important library resources, analyzing periodicals, writing query letters, writing the article, submitting, acceptance/rejection, and revision. Provides a list of 16 science, mathematics, and related publications with editors' names and addresses. (JM)

Describes the experiences of a college instructor required by government regulations to return to the classroom for one year. Discusses initial problems in establishing control in an open plan primary school and eventual successes in teaching composition and multicultural education. Recommendations are made for inservice and preservice teacher…

A study was conducted to determine whether there is a relationship between problem discovery and the assessed originality of the written product, and to determine whether problem-solving behavior is observable in student writers. Results indicated a relationship between problem finding and the originality of the product. (HOD)

Presents a study of the process and the product in the early writing attempts of two children. Examines some of the strategies they use during the intermediate or invented spelling stage. (HTH)

Discusses multiple uses of the word processor as a writing tool. Following a description of the various parts of a word processing system, the author addresses concerns of the novice user, concluding that word processors may serve "both in the professional writing of educators and in the teaching of writing." (JBM)