In recent years effective instruction in reading for learners with physical and educational disabilities has received great attention in the schools. However, instruction in the corollary skill of writing has received considerably less emphasis. This review paper notes that through the use of assistive technology, students with a variety of…

To investigate the composing processes of professional expository writers, interviews were conducted of six subjects who regularly produced expository prose under the pressure of a weekly or monthly deadline. Subjects included Noel Perrin, essayist, book critic, and Dartmouth College professor; Tom Wicker, political columnist for "The New York…

The problematic results of longitudinal studies on college writing indicate the need for multidimensional studies to be able to explore perceptible changes in students' writing. Accordingly a small pilot case study, to explore the promise and the limitations of doing a longitudinal multidimensional study, investigated whether impromptu essays…

Examines two of the consequences of the emphasis on creative writing in recent years and argues the need for impersonal or expository writing in English, especially at the secondary level. (RB)

The effectiveness of the freshman composition "reader" as a source of prose models for student essays is questionable because their often long and complicated rhetorical strategies and ideas can intimidate the writers. The narrow expository patterns offered in the readers can also reduce essay writing to a matter of copying a prescribed…

The basic issues of the "new" rhetoric include (1) the ways in which contemporary rhetoric is "new", (2) some of the problems facing contemporary rhetoric, and (3) the relation of rhetoric to the teaching of English. Two factors contributing to the concept of a "new" discipline are a revival of interest in classical rhetoric and the development of…

As the principal writer for the "Wayward Press" column in "The New Yorker," A. J. Liebling commented on and criticized the press from May 1945 through April 1963. This book, a new edition of one originally published in 1961, contains many of the articles which Liebling wrote and includes material which has not appeared in any…

The purposes of this study were to determine what context clues are used by sixth grade children as they read narrative and expository materials and to determine if narrative writing offers different clues than expository writing. A further purpose of this study was to develop a classification schema or schemata of context clues for both styles of…

Form, content, and style are stressed in this quinmester program in the creative writing of short stories. The program, which is offered by the Dade County Public Schools, is designed for students who wish to improve their writing skills in order to compose a structured short story. Among the learning activities suggested by the program are…

Describes an expository writing course that uses the student's personal experience both to stimulate intense interest in self-expression and to stimulate disciplined analytical thinking. (DD)

Sought to discover to what extent perceived quality differences in freshman expository writing could be measured quantitatively in terms of choice or method of utilization of syntactic structures. (DD)

Describes an experimental course in "Literature through Science" designed to improve students' expository writing skills while teaching them about science. (DD)

Disputes some points in an article in the September 1977 issue, in which Robbins Burling claimed that college English departments neglect the teaching of expository writing and restrict themselves to a brand of writing unrelated to the general affairs of the world. (GW)

An individualized first-quarter composition course. (AA)