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)

Guides to assist students in evaluating and revising or rewriting their written works are presented and discussed. (HTH)

Reveals the lack of research on children's writing and suitable writing instruction in the last 25 years. Points out the inadequacies in the research that is being done and the need for better research methods that take writing context and environment into account. (HTH)

Looks at an alternative method to linear notes for organizing thoughts when preparing a talk or paper. This method displays the manner in which the relationships of a subject are organized and offers a format for displaying complex inter-dependencies in place of linear notes. (Author/MER)

Encourages teachers to view writing as a process creating meaning, enabling the writer to come to grips with complex experience. (DD)

A study of the composing processes of 17 college freshman writers revealed the importance of reflection during composition--pausing and rescanning what has been written before continuing to write. (DD)

Writing behaviors such as pacing, crumpling paper, and cutting and pasting are signs of growth requiring nurturance. (DD)

Urges writing teachers to encourage revision and peer reading of drafts of papers so that students will know the processes writers go through to meet the requirements of the strangers who read what they write. (DD)

The third article in a series describing a study of the development of a third grader's approach to revision in writing. (DD)

Strategies for strengthening the writing skills of accounting students include the following: beginning with critical thinking as a prerequisite to effective writing; teaching the elements of composing and editing; and using "microthemes" assignments. (SK)

Suggests that productive creativity occurs more reliably with moderation of work duration and of emotions, not with the fatigue and ensuing depression of "binge" writing. Examines academics (new to a campus that required writing and publishing for tenure) who write either in moderation or in binges. Finds that productive, successful…

Discusses writing novels, particularly the author's novel "Freak the Mighty," and what it is like to be a sixth grader. (RS)