Describes a busy executive's writing process when writing a report for a board and points out its similarities to writing demanded of students. (EL)

A noted author of Westerns answers questions about how he got started, why he is still writing, what problems he has had in writing, what his needs and problems are as a writer, and where he is going with his writing. (EL)

Discusses the conflict between academic discourse and students' right to their own language. Shows how the study of interlanguage looks at the learner's present language use and provides a conceptual framework for seeing student writing as a stage in a developmental process, for seeing individual differences, and for seeing common patterns. (EL)

Argues that those who teach composition often feel like translators and that there are significant elements of the composing process that precisely parallel translation theory and practice. (FL)

Notes that George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is frequently encountered in textbooks that ignore the existence of the original audience. Argues that textbook editors thereby misinform students by failing to show how writers recognize and write to particular audiences, and how writers' specific audiences determine many of the authors'…

Shows how to use William Perry's developmental model, which addresses a student's ability to confront conflicting values and belief and use conflict as a tool of integration and growth, in a writing classroom that allows students to learn both enabling skills that help them communicate through writing and instrumental learning skills that spur…

Advocates the practice of peer editing in primary and secondary schools and offers three workable strategies for using students as editors: role playing, comments on the pages, and face-to-face critiques. (DF)

Recommends using Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as an aid to involve students in their writing and to overcome stilted diction while discovering that writing is a process. (CRH)

Argues that children want to write and enjoy writing and that teachers need to provide them with suitable opportunities for doing so. Discusses different kinds of writing that allow children's voices to come through. (FL)

Discusses the problems of readers' different responses to essay test passages and the implications for the subsequent writing assignment. Describes a model of the writing assessment episode and discusses four generalizations about writing task interpretation. (HTH)

Relates the story of how Glen Rounds, author and illustrator, came to work at Holiday House Publishing Company. (CRH)

In order to blend writing process with introduction to library, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga developed generic model of library research having three stages (pre-library, library awareness, library competence) that parallel stages in writing process. Library use is presented as series of activities including searching, retrieving,…

Presents a case study of a fourth grade boy writing science fiction in a writing workshop. (HTH)

Explores how Cormier learned the art of writing, its rewards, and the influences on his work. (CRH)

Proposes a rationale for adopting a theory of rhetoric and composition, delineates a set of assumptions underlying the formulation of such a theory, and discusses four recently proposed theories. (CRH)