Data in this study are from a research project conducted to fulfill the requirements of the PE.D. degree at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Methods of successful weight loss and factors affecting dieting are discussed. Eating hints are given with the characteristics of an exercise program which has cumulative effects on weight loss. (CM)

Because children are experts in at least one subject--themselves--their best written work is usually autobiographical. This article suggests various specific autobiographical writing assignments teachers might want to use with their students. (JMK)

Describes a teaching game for bibliographic formatting that emphasizes the importance of noting author, title, and publication information precisely while using accurate formatting and punctuation. (HTH)

Offers writing assignments and exercises for students in grades one through eight. (HOD)

Presents opposing views on the wisdom of teaching student writers to write for an "audience." (JL)

Insists upon the importance of poetry and provides a procedure for introducing both students and teachers to the writing and appreciation of poems. (JL)

The effects of three resistance training programs on male college students' muscular strength and absolute and relative muscular endurance were investigated. Results show that human skeletal muscle makes both general and specific adaptations to a training stimulus, and that the balance of these adaptations is to some extent dependent upon the…

Suggests teaching students four processes for improving sentences: addition, subtraction, substitution, and transposition. (JL)

Shows how the eagerness to learn and the wealth of experience of senior adults makes a composition course in autobiography particularly effective for such students. (JL)

Stroke drills to be used by swimming instructors to teach four competitive swim strokes are described. The drills include: one arm swims; (2) alternative kicks; (3) fist swims; and (4) catch-up strokes. (JN)