Describes the Writing Tutorial Service at Carleton University, Ottawa, which provides individual tutoring for students who want help with their writing. Outlines some of the teaching techniques used, showing how they vary according to the stage of the composing process at which tutors are required to intervene. (GT)

This fourth article in a series on the writing process describes one child's writing process and draws implications for teaching first grade writing. (DD)

Details, in a personal narrative, some techniques which have proved effective for enabling student success in the basic writing classroom. (PA)

Shares writing habits of a lifelong daily writer with her middle school students, asking them for a discussion of her work. Gives students a sheet with open-ended opinion prompts to fill out as "reader response." (PA)

Presents books for children, librarians, and teachers on different aspects of bookmaking from inspiration to writing and illustration; kits for paper, picture, and bookmaking; and the HarperCollins Web site. Includes a description of and address for the Landmark Editions contest for young writers and comments from author Paul Fleischman on the…

Presents a history of the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard for preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and provides a section-by-section guide to preparing MSDSs that comply with the standard. (SR)

Investigates five audience-related constructs related to the writing of adults demonstrating varying degrees of literacy competence. Studies 35 college-able writers demonstrating learning disabilities (LD), 22 LD writers attending a rehabilitation vocational training program, 35 remedial college writers, and 35 normally achieving college writers.…

Claims that what matters in classroom writing instruction is an authentic, supportive audience. Shares results from a study of a combined grades 5-6 classroom. Finds that students felt successful as writers when peers evaluated their prose positively. States that the students' knowledge that their writing evoked emotional response from their peers…

Argues that in teaching students to write as critics, educators need to ask them to change not how they think but how they work--to take on a new sort of intellectual practice. Shows how helping students become more aware of choices they make in revising their texts can help them gain control of using the work of others and gain a reflectiveness…

Examines how two adult students "extrapolated" on previous writing experiences in particular genres to allow them to adapt to writing in new genres in a college writing course. Bases the findings on interviews with two adult students. (TB)

Notes the importance of noticing details and the precious, weird little details of neighborhoods. Uses poetry by Latin American poets to teach children and adults how to write their own poetry. Starts with basic techniques--talking, reading, discussing, and notetaking. (PA)

Discusses technology and literacy, in particular the characteristics and qualities of hypertext. Seeks to communicate some of the experience of reading hypertext. Argues that the computer is much more than a new device for displaying textual information or for teaching children how to read and write. (SR)

Presents a rationale for systematic notemaking (annotating directly onto the pages of textbooks) to reorganize content, a model of the notemaking continuum, an example of a journal assignment, a six-step coding system for notemaking with literature, two formats for coding--one for themes and one for character analysis, and conclusions on the…

Reflects on four significant issues discussed in this issue devoted to teaching writers to spell: (1) how much time should be spent on spelling; (2) how kids can be helped to care more about spelling; (3) how stakeholders can be helped to understand the point of what educators are doing with spelling; and (4) where the national climate is heading…

Interviews Kim Stanley Robinson, a well-known science fiction author. Discusses his reasons for writing science fiction, his writing influences, and writing techniques. Explains his interest in science and the relationship between music and his writing. (PM)