Presents seven documents in the ERIC system which discuss innovative approaches to the teaching of freshmen composition courses. (RB)

Authors describe a remedial writing course and conclude that individualized instruction is effective, efficient and economical. (Author/HB)

Students in a political science course were assigned to interview someone who had written a relevant letter for the editorial page of the local newspaper. This was a success in motivating and maintaining student interest as well as accomplishing the course objectives. (KM)

Offers suggestions for news reporting, specifically on the interviewing and writing processes. (RB)

Analyzes the process of comprehension, distinguishing between comprehension and several related skills, and defining comprehension as the ability to identify the intended effects of a piece of writing and to explain what causes exist within the piece which produces these effects. (MD)

The article expounds the theory that, given the right classroom environment, there is no limit to the possibilities of creativity. The limits that do appear are usually the result of the teacher's conception of the acceptable rather than any failing on the part of the student. (Author/LF)

Urges secondary school English teachers to encourage students to experiment more with repetition as a writing technique. (SW)

Describes a study in which students who read widely showed greater improvement in writing after nine weeks than did students who had frequent writing assignments, with the implication that reading should be integral to writing practice. (RW)

"The principal aim in this article has been to point out that the logical relationships can be contained in a fairly limited list and to suggest an approach for using this list as a teaching aid in the comprehension of written exposition." (Author/FWB)

Types of articles appearing in education journals are categorized and explained, and three higher education journals' contents in 1975 and 1980 are examined for their content type, in percentages and numbers of articles of each type. Based on the results, the journals were found lacking in inquiry, theory, and humanism. (MSE)

The development of prose comprehension and writing skills in children and, in particular, the issue of what children know about different types of discourse are reviewed. Many different types of studies are considered in order to show how children's prior knowledge might affect their subsequent performance on both reading and writing tasks.…

Use of cognitive capacity was measured during reading of text in six experiments. Results were consistent with a comprehensibility theory stating that when more meaning is produced in reader's cognitive system while reading a text, more cognitive capacity is filled by reading it. (FL)

Traditionally writing is taught in three segments: discourse, syntax, and grammar. Research in the 1970s questions this and shows that formal grammar study does little to improve student writing. Some educators are now showing that students learn English structure and grammar best as they find they need it through their own writing experiences.…

This study investigates the construct validity of profiles of high school students' (n=92) writing competence obtained from tasks designed to be parallel on all dimensions but discourse mode (expository or narrative) and response mode (direct or indirect). (Author/PN)