Author recommends activities designed to help teachers in some way become more creative, more sensitive in their responses to other people and their work, more flexible in developing environments for learning, and more confident of the value of their work in teaching and in other areas. (Author/CB)

Model for classroom evaluation and analysis of the short story, and an illustrative application of this method to D.H. Lawrence's Second Best". (RS)

Article outlines method for having students evaluate their fellow students' compositions without knowing the authors' names. Object is to teach them to write for their peers but also to analyze work slightly better and slightly worse than their own. (PD)

Earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual TESOL convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March 1971. (DS)

A teacher discovers that the practice of collecting samples of her students' compositions motivates their writing and yields other instructional assets. (RD)

An experiment described more fully in The Effectiveness of Non-Directive Teaching as a Method of Improving the Writing Ability of College Freshmen," the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, School of Education, 969. (Editor/SW)

Test items designed to measure the four language skills and their combinations are presented; various presentations of item types (question, statement, sentence completion, etc.) are illustrated; and the best possible uses are given for each of the different types. The author is Chief of the Measurement Branch, Defense Language Institute, English…

Argues that writing in the content areas should be used as a discovery tool, stimulating students' conceptual involvement and prompting them to further investigations. (MM)

Describes a program that gives psychology students practice in written and oral communication. It involves students in writing an abstract of a journal article and in making an oral presentation. Writing and speaking skills, along with methodology, may be the most enduring legacy of introductory psychology courses. (CS)

Describes computer programs designed to assist in teaching composition. These include an elementary school writing program, poetry writing programs, and four writing/editing programs (dealing with text already written and needing revision or for helping students develop a higher level of sophistication with specific skills already demonstrated in…