Describes a program designed to encourage children to write and publish their own books. Explains how the program has improved the writing and storytelling abilities of the children involved. (FL)

Encourages composition teachers to write and to use their writing in their teaching as a way to model writing processes, products, and attitudes for their students. (JL)

An award-winning author-illustrator reflects on some of his attitudes and feelings about his work, and on some factors which were important in his creation of a recent picture book for children. (PP)

Reviews "Dawn of Fear," a children's novel set in England in World War II that revolves around themes of childhood, aggression, and friendship. (AEA)

A study reviewed 45,000 articles and letters in eight medical and pharmacy journals with cross-over use to determine pharmacists' coauthorship patterns, and author dominance, frequency, and degrees. Pharmacists with PhDs are most common in medical journals; PharmDs in pharmacy journals. PharmDs as single authors and PhD coauthorship are most…

Stresses the unity of two themes--a sense of change and a sense of continuity--in the writing and reading of adolescent literature. Writers are encouraged to avoid the pitfalls of "in" topics and moralizing to promote the flowering of expressive realistic adolescent literature that adolescents will want to read. (RAA)

Reveals that middle school students enjoy the books of Enid Blyton because they launch immediately into the action and are full of action throughout; they keep description to a minimum; and they contain characters who are about the same age as the readers. (FL)

Although it is costly to write, in both personal and financial terms, few other endeavors provide the same professional rewards and recognition, according to the author. He outlines the basic routine that any aspiring academician must follow in order to develop a successful publication record. (Editor/SJL)

The personal comments of literary naturalist, John Burroughs, whose 60-year writing career began in the 1860s, can guide writing teachers today. Recommended techniques include literary walks, a fermentation process between contact with nature and writing about it, emphasis on clarity and truth, and keeping a journal. (NEC)

The present study, in an attempt to suggest factors which were at work in giving a man of such varied interests and predispositions the peculiar shape that they did, focuses upon the pathway that Wilson took during the 1920s, while questing for the mysteries of Axel's castle. (Author)

Guidelines and advice are given on writing for scholarly journals, including planning article content and format, writing, editing, selecting a journal, submitting the manuscript, and corresponding with the publisher. (SJL)

An interview with Edwin Emery, journalism professor and co-author of the widely used textbook "The Press and America," in which he discusses his book, historians and historical schools that influenced his work, and areas of journalism and mass communication history that need to be researched and expanded upon today. (GT)

Nine writers reflect on what it is like to talk with their readers in schools. One theme prevails: the importance of face-to-face encounters to the writers as well as the readers. (HOD)

Tips for teachers who want to get their writing published, lists of resources with information on publications, and annotated list of journals for English educators. (RL)

A survey of authors of elementary social studies methods texts indicates a lack of agreement on goals for the elementary social studies. Implications of this study are outlined. (JMF)