Describes writing folders (used to hold children's personal and creative writing efforts for an entire school year) and how they may be used effectively. (FL)

The effectiveness of a self-instructional procedure in improving and maintaining the letter-formation skills of three students (10.4 to 11.7 years old) who were learning disabled and had handwriting deficiencies was investigated. (SW)

A systematic individual instruction program was employed to teach three profoundly retarded adults selected physical fitness exercises. Results indicated that the adults learned the selected exercises and generalized the exercises to a group physical fitness program. Performance on nontrained exercises also improved without additional individual…

Offers suggestions for helping students write effective research papers. (FL)

Suggests assigning students a spontaneous "how-to" paper the first day of class to clarify the need for audience and purpose considerations. (HTH)

Describes a method for encouraging students to develop a reflective/exploratory essay. Students are asked to freewrite or brainstorm on several famous quotations, exploring the disparity between the appearance and the reality. Students then write essays on some of the ideas conveyed by one of the quotes. (HTH)

Describes several activities for generating writing ideas and writing assignments to capitalize on those activities. Assignments include recording the experience, describing a reaction to the experience, or forming a generalization based on the experience or a principle formalized as the result of the activity. (HTH)

Discusses situational sequencing, a concept of teaching writing that places writers within specific rhetorical contexts and asks them to produce a series of writings that develop from and relate to one another. Provides examples of such assignments. (FL)

Contributors review the advantages and disadvantages of essay contests. Considers typical essay topics, evaluation criteria, contests as motivational techniques, the validity of the essay form, and contests' impact on writers' audience awareness. (MM)

Describes a method of writing instruction that not only helps students write successfully in the target language and leaves them willing to write again but also helps develop reading, listening, and speaking skills in the prewriting stages. (EKN)

Suggests that student's expression in composition will improve by daily journal writing. (HOD)

Two experiments conducted on fifth-grade boys indicated that isometric training failed to produce significant gains in subjects' physical strength. (GW)

Reported are effects on physical work capacity, cardiovascular function, and body composition of training programs (walking or jogging) for adult males which in intensity and frequency. (GW)