Managers can coach employees in writing better reports by helping them through the following steps: audience and purpose, idea generation, organization, drafting, and editing for style, structure, and mechanics. (SK)

Examines the works of Gillian Rubinstein, a popular author of children's literature who is now writing for older readers. Explores what she says and how she says it in her three novels for older readers. (PRA)

Presents an interview about writing and a writer's rituals with Richard Selzer, for many years a professor of surgery at Yale, who now devotes his time to writing and has published several books. (SR)

Focuses on the signs and characteristics of maturity in children's writing. Discusses signs such as providing details; elaborating on the subject; varying sentence patterns; deepening the presentation; unfolding the presentation; and sustaining the focus of the topic. Discusses the teacher's role. (RS)

Interviews author Larry Heinemann, discussing how he became a writer, his books, and in particular his writing about the Vietnam War. (SR)

Reveals the origin of Roger Angell's interest in becoming a writer, the circumstances leading to his interest in baseball, and his philosophy concerning his own writing processes and the teaching of writing. (NH)

Describes the reaction of first-year composition students to a classroom performance of John Cage's 4'33" [his most (in)famous piece] and discusses the role of silence in the composing process. (NH)

Presents an interview with Jonathan Miller, medical doctor, actor, stage director, and documentary film producer. (RS)

Presents an interview with Amy Tan. Reveals how she became a writer and discusses her views on teachers of writing, about the book "The Joy Luck Club," about autobiography and fiction, and about writing and rewriting or the creative process itself. (NH)

Describes how the Prep Editor can be used to support online collaborative editing. Discusses and illustrates how the Prep Editor interface allows student teams to extract the claimed and unclaimed work of each member and how this information can support a team's further decision making. (RS)

Explains why technical communicators should help translators. Offers tips for creating "translation-friendly" documentation. Describes the research and design process used by the authors to create an online tutorial that provides technical communicators at a medical technology company the information they need to help them write and…

Discusses the somatic mind, a permeable materiality in which mind and body resolve into a single entity which is (re)formed by the constantly shifting boundaries of discursive and corporeal intertextualities. Addresses its importance in composition studies. Critiques the poststructuralist disregard of corporeality. (CR)

Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of…

Examines how the author's work in nursing has helped reveal, through poetry, her own "key images" (images that unconsciously bring life, energy, and universality to a poet's work). Suggests ways writers might encourage intense personal imagery to enter their own poems or the poems of their students. (SR)

This interview with author Will Hobbs, who has written books for young adults as well as picture books, discusses his writing process; writing historical novels; books that influenced him; other influences on his writing; and his message for readers. (LRW)