This article discusses peer editing and how it can be used at any level of foreign language learning to check syntax or content problems. Application in the classroom shows that peer editors can help detect writing problems of their classmates. (Contains 17 references.) (JL)

This article describes an activity to generate interest in writing and ownership of the learning experience by students with learning disabilities. An object is placed in a bag, a volunteer describes the item by feeling it, students draw the item, and students then discuss the importance of expressing ideas clearly. (JDD)

Describes development of a process-oriented writing curriculum that provides continuity through the use of portfolios passed on to the students' next teacher and a classroom atmosphere that celebrates writing as a natural part of students' lives. (HTH)

Grapples with the issues that face writers who take seriously both their artistic and social responsibilities. Addresses the widespread denigration of social awareness that goes along with labeling something as "PC" (politically correct). (SR)

Describes a classroom project conducted at Mary Washington College to examine students' awareness of the demands posed by the various academic writing tasks required during the semester; discover how that awareness develops with experience; and orient new students to the roles writing plays in their academic lives. (DMM)

Describes a writing assignment designed to help students with the frequently strange and foreboding job of writing a poem. Discusses how one student and the teacher worked through the assignment. (RS)

Describes a teacher's experience with a research paper assignment in which the project remained in the students' hands from start to finish. Notes the students' reactions to the project, and the teacher's struggle to redefine her role. Discusses the students' follow-up journals and some of the surprises along the way. (PRA)

A discussion of the need to teach revision as part of the writing process begins with an analysis of the revision process and presents results of experiments in teaching revision. Some specific classroom techniques for teaching error detection and revision are then outlined. (20 references) (Author/MSE)

Investigates whether students are using a process approach to writing by examining pictures drawn by first year college students illustrating their procedures for writing a paper for school. Discusses various aspects revealed in the drawings. Finds that a process approach is scarcely apparent. (SR)

Describes and flowcharts the process of writing a resume to help students to write more orderly and logically. Includes steps beginning with the personal inventory and ending with the final copy. (PRA)

Explores one teacher-researcher's attempt to involve students in theory-building research of their own composing processes. Aims to increase involvement of rural youth in higher education, youth who have traditionally remained on the farm or gone directly to work in now-faltering rural economies. Shares an outline of the course plan. (MG)

Discusses the importance of evaluating writing in publication form as the final step of a project before moving on to the next assignment. (MG)

Presents a three-phase strategy whereby teachers can introduce the writing process to children at almost all grade levels by involving them in writing fractured fairy tales or fairy tales with a twist. Appends a sample fractured fairy tale. (SR)

The development of "English for Occupational Purposes" (EOP) by a team of seven authors and two project directors for EOP classes at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore is described. Aspects included the prewriting stage; analyses of the teaching, learning, and target situations analysis; writing and editing; and postwriting stage. (LB)

Argues that both academic writing (academic jargon to some) and personal writing (soul-searching drivel to others) in all their diversity, with whatever purity they can attain or with whatever impurity they must reveal, ought to be a part of composition teachers' knowledge and practice. (RS)