Points out the increasing awareness of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to science and the humanities. Outlines the necessary steps to establish a team-taught English course for engineering students and its utilization in educational development. (SMB)

Tells how the author combines the study of metaphors and individual words in writing assignments about Shakespeare's plays and other works of literature. (RL)

Reviews the positive effects of participating in a faculty seminar on writing across the curriculum. Notes that writing must extend into subject area courses but that the curriculum must also be brought into writing courses. (JT)

Describes a multiple-choice story-writing technique that students use to create a character and that provides insight into an author's problem of character development. (MKM)

Uses a case study to describe how to help students discover the subjective nature of language habits and patterns of thought. (MKM)

Low grades and papers overrun with corrections can discourage children from learning to write. Assuming children who write a great deal can become good writers, this article provides alternatives to grading: individual, weekly conferences; editing by peers; and use of an overhead projector. Praise and comments are considered a must. (DS)

The author traces the development of writing as a therapeutic tool, from its roots in Freudian psychoanalysis and bibliotherapy to current practices in the humanistic psychologies, where poetry therapy, correspondence, and diary-keeping are used as adjuncts to conventional therapies and as vehicles for self-awareness and self-help. (SJL)

Reports on a study of 60 undergraduates which investigated correlations between style variations (inversion, ornamentation, condensation, poor distribution, and deliberate misleadingness) and such psychological factors as reading ease, mental organization, and recall. (DD)

Describes an approach to evaluating creative writing in which the teacher acts as an editor and grades according to contracts set up during conferences. (MKM)

Creativity should be developed in students, especially through the teaching of literature. Composition assignments that draw upon students' personal experiences and observations help to develop literary creativity, cognitive activism, and independence. (Author/AV)

Criticizes the "Norm Book for English" for its priorities, finding that it slights the content aspect in favor of the language side. It is argued that there should be greater flexibility in the judging of Abitur (high School graduation) essays. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This paper discusses "non-materials" which are defined as useful resources of various kinds which are not specifically intended for use in teaching writing to the ESL (English as a Second Language) student. An annotated bibliography of nineteen such writing texts is included. (CFM)

Current educational philosophy places strong emphasis on student portfolios. One way to develop a pool of items for potential inclusion in the mathematics portfolio is to have students keep a working portfolio in the form of a notebook. The notebook builds a base from which students can expand existing knowledge and develop higher-level thinking…

Explores the writing experiences of a group of Black bilingual women in a language studies course in Britain. The study focuses on how the practices surrounding dominant conventions in academic writing in higher education constrain what these women can say what they say, thus regulating their writing. (JL)

The personal statement as an indicator of writing skill was evaluated by comparing personal statements with standardized essay measures of writing ability for 475 graduate students. Correlations of the essay and the personal statement with nontest indicators of writing skill indicate that the traditional essay was more highly related to nearly all…