Questions the ability of composition studies to empower students to resist authority. Analyzes the recent paradigm shifts within composition studies from a perspective informed by Michel Foucault. Discusses classroom design, process pedagogies, and the construction of the field of composition as bringing increased student visibility. (HB)

Discusses a process to guide technical writers engaged in writing a script for a video production on a technical subject. Offers an example of the development of such a script from a video demonstrating a surgical procedure. (SR)

Relates how parody is useful with third-grade children. Shows how children composed personal and meaningful stories based on selected literature. Compares parody and other writing strategies. Defines the parody process, including listening to literature stories, examining picture books, peer editing, and learning language. Includes comments from…

Discusses, in poetic form, the writing of the play "Salvador" from the perspective of the author. Explains her thoughts about writing for children, including didactic relationships with children, didactic functions of art, and how adults teachers try to create a sterilized, lifeless, good-thinking, and artificial world for children when they are…

Discusses the teaching of writing and the focus of the writer's inner sense of well-being or fulfillment used by Romantic teachers. Mentions that some teachers believe that this is at the cost of suppressing the concept of discourse. Argues that writerly pleasure empowers students, and that this topic is relevant to the teaching of writing. (CR)

Presents examples of writing to show that glory provides a better pretext for writing teachers to think about the motives for writing than those that are set forth in textbooks. Notes that these examples are of ordinary glory, glory as it appears in the writing of students and teachers and judges in writing workshops. (RS)

Studies variations in kindergarten children's early writing forms in Spanish and the relationship among different writing forms, phonological awareness and the demands of the writing tasks. Suggests that in the process of writing acquisition, children move back and forth across forms of writing. Notes interplay among different types and levels of…

Presents an interview with author of young adult literature, Michael Cadnum. Discusses his poetry, audience, characters, disturbing themes, "big openings," use of myth, jobs and life events that contributed to his development as a writer, time it takes to write a book, novels based on real-life events, and forthcoming books. Includes a…

Argues that the Dictamen (a formal and complex model for letter writing in Medieval times, prescribing a certain writing style and organization) disappeared slowly by attrition over 100 years prior to 1500, and that it was never universal. Supports this claim by examining the Cely papers, the largest surviving collection of merchant letters,…

Discusses the building of a multipurpose computer writing environment that will take into account the needs of the professional writer as well as those of the students learning to write. Presents the developed model after looking at some computer writing environments described in the literature and seeing how these environments take into account…

Presents an interview with author Chris Crutcher, writer of numerous award-winning books for adolescents. Discusses his new books, his writing process, censorship challenges, truth and fear, and his work as a child therapist. (SR)

Shows how paying attention to specific insights from the quality movement can help writing teachers rethink their own approaches to writing processes and resist the corporate takeover of institutions and students' minds. Suggests teachers revitalize their thinking about process. Discusses resisting the system. Concludes that a process approach…

Presents an interview with Will Hobbs, author of novels for middle school and young adult readers, wherein he discusses his books "Ghost Canoe,""The Maze" and "Jason's Gold." Includes a review of "Jason's Gold." (NH)

Describes the Writing Workshop (WW) program at Upland Elementary (Indiana) and how it emphasizes the use of doing rough drafts and revising them to teach writing. Recounts the stories of five grade-school children who blossomed in WW. Summarizes the steps in-process writing: rough drafts, self-editing, peer conferencing, teacher conferencing,…

Suggests that writing is a rhythmic activity. Claims that the combined effect of rapidly switching between composing and revising is to set up complex cycles of engagement and reflection that may disrupt the flow of composition. Describes "Writer's Assistant," a writing environment designed to study computer support for writing processes. Proposes…