This 25-page "Action Guide" is accompanied by a compact disk that presents sound bites from contemporary rock musicians about their experiences with violence and rage. This interview material is followed by current popular hit songs by Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews Band, Everclear, Backstreet Boys, Alanis Morissette, and Tori Amos. Many musicians…

Encouraging children to write helps bring out their feelings and develop positive self-concepts. (RB)

An educator, concerned with the state of current elementary school writing methodology, suggests a positive approach based on the principle of children writing what they want to write for a real audience of peer cohorts. (CS)

Student criticism of traditional term paper assignments and their recommendations for a relevant" assignment led to a satisfactory creative project, reflecting the life and times of imaginary characters in history. (JB)

Article presents a study to determine whether the apparent benefits of ITA over TO were long-lasting or ephemeral. (Author)

A closet drama describing how a father's concern that his son learn creative and communicative writing in grade school is frustrated by a computerized, depersonalized program which stresses all writing problems are really reading problems." (DE)

A consideration of seven "necessary freedoms" which, the author maintains, composition classes typically do not provide for students. (RD)

Describes a University of Idaho pilot program in communication skills (at McSorley School, Lewiston, Idaho) enabling first and second graders to dictate narrations about their experiences into cassette recorders. (SW)

The phenomenon of a "secondary world"--the world of imagination created by writers of fiction in which writers and readers mentally participate--is described. Theories on the subject are discussed, and a three-dimensional model of the psychological structure of this world is presented. (PP)

Examines how different types of prewriting activities, teacher motivations, and classroom environments influence the student writing process. (MM)

Describes the interest, commitment, and good writing that developed from students' production of a book of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry about their local area. (MM)

Recounts the personal experiences of a science fiction writer and suggests ways these experiences apply to the teaching of creative writing. (JL)