Summarizes the most effective techniques for preparing instruction manuals for non-English readers. Reviews techniques such as human translation, machine translation, and controlled English. Argues that writers of such manuals must take into account differences in language, culture, and learning style. (JAD)

Describes methods for organizing and developing booklets of technical articles emphasizing engineering innovations, used as a marketing tool by corporate sales divisions. (JAD)

Claims that writing logs constitute an effective teaching tool in basic college writing courses. Discusses one teacher's success using writing logs to assist the development of students' freewriting skills. Includes sample entries revealing students' comments and progress throughout the term and documenting the teacher's response to these…

Claims that self-evaluation instruments strengthen students' ability to evaluate their own writing and improve writing instruction. Argues that self-evaluation exercises should (1) help students evaluate their writing, (2) demystify teachers' grades, (3) encourage students' awareness as writers, (4) require written responses from student, and (5)…

Discusses how computer programing and expository writing are both based on the ability to (1) recognize that a complex whole is composed of manageable parts, and (2) identify the necessary steps for achieving a goal or supporting a generality, and (3) concentrate on and summarize a large amount of information into an abbreviated, succinct…

Argues that both small group behavior and writing processes are involved in the writing of group reports. (SRT)

Demonstrates why traditional methods of audience analysis in composition have so little practical rhetorical value. Provides a backdrop for a broader and more useful view of what can go into audience analysis. (HTH)

Reports how the use of microcomputers in a writing class helped change students' writing behaviors, created a writing community, caused the teacher to learn along with the students, and helped marginal writers improve. (SRT)

Outlines the histories of the dominant theoretical views of the composing process including the expressive view, the cognitive view, and the social view. Argues that claims for making composition a true academic discipline must be based on a conception of process broader than any of these three views. (SRT)

Discusses the benefits of using word processing software to motivate student writers. Briefly describes computer programs that assist students during the composing process. (AEA)

An award winning author discusses the making of his novel, "Raspberry One" and stresses the need for accuracy and honesty in historical fiction. (HOD)

Discusses tasks that students often overlook but need to address when completing "instructor/content-based" writing assignments. (HTH)

Observes that writing students are often confronted with a great many variables that preclude their attention to specific stylistic details. Explores professional journals that suggest that students in content areas also experience the same difficulty when confronted with abstractions or contexts different from those taught in the classroom. (HT)

Adapts Edward de Bono's "Intermediate Impossible" strategy--for considering ideas that normally would be discarded as stepping-stones to new ideas--for use as a prewriting activity to enhance creative problem solving. (HTH)

Argues that writing instruction should begin as early as kindergarten. Suggests that learning how to write occurs best not in traditional classrooms but when the classroom is turned into a workshop, where the process of planning, writing, and revising is honored. (KH)