Discusses four basic categories of restrictions within which the video script writer works: purpose, time, budget, and resources. Discusses how these variables work together to force creation of a document that can be produced. (SR)

Lists and discusses briefly six "jumpstarters" for writers, intended to "rev them up and keep them going." (SR)

Describes the author's experience with a writing group at a summer institute. Reconstructs the writing group's process, describing the evolution of a poem about the death of his sister and the writing group's invaluable assistance in that history. (SR)

Follows brief preparatory comments with 12 sections (relevant to technical communication) from the "Analects" of Confucius--2 dealing with getting an education and applying for a job, 6 addressing one's approach to assignments, and 4 suggesting a professional code of ethics. (SR)

Relates the author's personal experiences growing up with and writing science fiction. Discusses symbols that work themselves out in the writing of science fiction. (PRA)

Notes that prescriptions for scientific writing about jargon and the passive voice do not take into account that language varies with rhetorical setting. Argues that prescriptions to avoid them are not well adapted to their functions. (SR)

Discusses kinds of jargon found in technical writing, how much jargon is acceptable, and the best way to handle jargon. (SR)

Proposes that writers evaluate works in progress guided by their internal standards. Finds that writing samples from students whose judgments of good writing matched those of their readers were rated significantly higher than the writing of students whose judgments disagreed. (SR)

Presents an extensive bibliography of books, articles, review essays, and reviews published in 1993 on a wide range of fields with information relevant to scientific and technical communication. (SR)

Discusses how to get started in hypermedia, offering a springboard for beginning hyperdocument developers. Argues that the key is to transfer the familiar to the unfamiliar by adapting paper-document writing processes and by applying the appropriate, familiar page-design principles. (SR)

Presents an approach to document numbering, document titling, and process measurement which, when used with fundamental techniques of statistical process control, reveals meaningful process-element variation as well as nominal productivity models. (SR)

Asserts that mental imagery and human imagination are not only involved in the composition process but are fundamental to it. Asserts also that imagination is central to all communication, especially sophisticated use of language. Argues that imagination is the basis of concept of persona and perhaps of all rhetoric. Discusses imagery in modern…

Discusses the pedagogy and writing of Joyce Carol Oates and its relationship to composition theory and writing processes. Emphasizes the ties between composition theory and literature appreciation. (PRA)

Describes ways to teach children to write poetry. Offers three approaches that do not work and several ways that do work. (PRA)

Suggests that teachers or researchers ought to slow down, trust their intuitions, and keep solutions open longer as they approach and attempt to solve educational problems. Shares, through three studies and one poem, the similarity in the thinking and writing of research problems and the composing of a poem. (MG)