Discusses the developmental writing behaviors of children in a print rich environment. Suggests ways to encourage the writing process in beginning writers, and urges teachers to learn more about the concept of invented spelling. (MM)

Demonstrates that students who attempt graphically to represent their own writing process increase their involvement and self-awareness while validating their new writing behaviors and come to understand their role in managing the unique complexities of their own composing process. (SR)

Finds that case assignments used in a college business composition course generally produced more effective writing products than did traditional model assignments. Suggests that the writing processes and attitudes involved in the case assignments were highly sensitive to audience and context, whereas those involved in the traditional assignments…

Presents an interview with author Sharon Creech, winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal for her book called "Walk Two Moons." Talks with her about her experiences as an author and as a teacher. (SR)

Discusses the life and writings of George MacDonald (1824-1905). Suggests that the most striking feature of MacDonald's children's books is his sensitivity toward spiritual values and the power of change within the lives of his characters. Appends a list of questions to stimulate student response to MacDonald's writings. (RS)

Discusses Janet Emig's experiences with sexism in academe in the 1950s and 1960s and her composing process theory in the 1960s. Addresses pedagogical implications of her composing theory, cognitive development as a factor in composition pedagogy, and publication of the monograph. Discusses criticism of the monograph, and suggests that it…

Examines the practical questions of how the enthymematic approach can be used in the classroom to help students become conscious of and more skilled in the process and shape of inquiry. Focuses on two processes that are at the heart of enthymematic inquiry: the process of discovery and shaping claims, and the process of discovering relationships…

Discusses McPhee's interviewing techniques, how he handles the mass of notes he generates in preparing and researching a book, how he translates those notes into a first draft, his relationships with editors, and the course on "The Literature of Fact" he teaches at Princeton. (RS)

Discusses how to develop a proposal in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP). Provides a list of things needed to write a proposal, a proposal outline, a general proposal checklist, and a proposal writing checklist. (DR)

Reprints a 1983 article from this journal in which the author (a well-known journalist, writer, and teacher) shares advice he gives himself and his students. Updates the article with an Afterword commenting on the earlier writing. (SR)

Discusses a literacy-enhancement program for undereducated university staff members tutored by college students taking a composition course on literacy. Focuses on the essays of one college student to illustrate how the sequence of writing assignments in the course fostered the reading and writing processes of academic literacy. (SR)

Discusses how peer response journals were liberating for two students. Notes that the technique sometimes works well and sometimes does not. Notes that the two students felt more comfortable in their writing, expressed themselves more clearly, became more responsive, took risks, asked questions, shared opinions, and expressed inner feelings. (RS)

Describes lessons learned about writers and writing from living with a fiction writer. Discusses implications for teachers of writing. (SR)

Presents an interview with children's poet J. Patrick Lewis. Discusses works in progress, his writing processes, his views on poetry, and his revision processes. (RS)

Discusses the collaboration of two first grade girls as they wrote three stories on a newly installed classroom computer. Finds that children bring a great deal of knowledge about the processes and conventions of writing and story construction into their composition. Notes that a single microcomputer can be put to valuable use without complicated…