Describes a qualitative study of the practices of 12 teachers as they used writing activities in the classrooms. Presents examples of integration of writing and subject matter. (SR)

Examines the roles of convention, conflict, and conversation in the formation of audience constructs. Finds that writers' textual choices to address or invoke audiences are based more on institutional conventions than on either disciplinary conventions or on situational conditions and constraints. (SR)

Discusses a study of writing revision in which all the writing done in two sections of a writing course was collected and draft-to-draft revisions were studied. Suggests that revision depends as much on acquisition of topical knowledge as on level of cognitive development. (SR)

Examines differences between composition researchers and communication professionals in use of the term "editing." Argues for cooperation between these two groups to develop an interdisciplinary definition of editing to bring consistency to research, precision to the editing process, and substantial advance in the bridge between theory…

Describes an informal experiment designed to explore the relationship between drawing and writing, and the meaning held in the drawings. Finds that drawing should not be relegated only to small children, but should be used to help older students explore their thoughts and feelings as well. (PRA)

Argues that managers write within a unique context, and, thus, much of what is known about writing in general or professional writing may not apply. Reviews the literature on managerial writing, finding a paucity of research and a heavy emphasis on survey methodology. Offers six general research questions for future research. (SR)

Reveals Donald Murray's philosophy regarding the composing processes including the relationship between drawing and writing, and his response to the changes taking place in the field of composition and composition research. (NH)

Discusses how linguistic theory can usefully inform writing research and pedagogy. Reviews the historic interrelations between linguistics and writing research. Considers some examples of how linguistic theory has been successfully translated into writing in its discourse context. (HB)

Addresses, in an empirical study, the role personality types of writers and of raters play in the holistic rating of writing, and whether there is a relationship between writers' personalities and raters' personalities. Indicates writers' personality types affect the ratings their essays receive and raters' personality types affect the ratings…

Explores the relation of essays to canon theory, explains why the only essay canon to be publicly identified in the 20th century is a powerful teaching canon. Shows "where essays live," how they arrive in the teaching canon, and why they stay there. Examines how essays are taught. Looks at the future of the essay canon. (SR)

Examines the impact of training in literature on the development of theories of composition. Examines connections between the strategies employed in seven influential composition theorists' dissertations (Linda Flower, Art Young, David Bartholomae, Erika Lindemann, Toby Fulwiler, Lisa Ede, and Peter Elbow) and those strategies used in their…

Argues that: (1) the disturbing effects of writer's block the student experienced were the result of self-disintegration; (2) the student's cognitive powers were devoted to a defensive stabilization of the self; (3) the defining qualities of his writing were a product of his psychological configuration; and (4) his tendency toward narcissistic…

Considers how a feminist rhetoric can engage complicated notions of ownership and intellectual property. Discusses issues of ownership in writing classrooms. Explores the professional life of Andrea Abernethy Lunsford at Ohio State University. Notes that Lundsford suggests composition must be re-imagined as a field in which a radical individual is…

Examines the development of sales genres in mainland China in the pre-reform period (1949-78) and the reform period (1978 to the present). Discusses how all the sales genres are related to the three larger genres in Chinese written discourse: the superior writing to the subordinate, the subordinate writing to the superior, and equals writing to…

Investigates how the purpose of three types of business and technical documents (instructions, annual reports, and sales promotional letters) affects the syntactical and rhetorical choices authors make in writing these documents. Outlines partial syntactical and rhetorical "fingerprints" of these documents to offer students norms they can go by in…