Examines structural ties that children use to join their sentences into a coherent paragraph or composition. (HTH)

Describes writing assignments in which students develop paragraphs incorporating various sense images. (RL)

Reading, vocabulary enlargement, and the cause and effect essay are stressed as activities students can pursue on their own to improve their writing. (HTH)

Presents examples of messages to a reading teacher from kindergarten students that combine drawing and elementary writing skills. Emphasizes the important role of teachers and other adults and of reading and writing tools in the development of children's reading and writing abilities. (HTH)

An experiment with technical high school students found that a combination of motivation and skills training increased job skill information listed in first resume writing attempts of novice job applicants. Both skills training and encouragement are required to initiate and focus writing efforts on describing skills employers desire. (Author/BEF)

The editor of "English Quarterly" interviews Frank O'Hare about his work on sentence combining, his views about writing instruction and writing research, and about his own writing. (RL)

Provides a brief review of sentence combining development and research, and suggests some future directions for the technique. (RL)

Stresses the importance of revision in the creative writing process and presents a worksheet to be used in groups of four students to evaluate and improve rough drafts of written assignments. (DR)

To demonstrate how one might go beyond mechanical errors to describe, measure, and evaluate student writing as communication, several evaluation procedures were applied to a brief writing protocol submitted by an adolescent learning disabled student. (Author/DLS)

Summarizes a study of five unskilled college writers, focusing especially on one of the five, and discusses the findings in light of current pedagogical practice and research design. (DD)

Considers the use of syntactic complexity data as norms of syntactic development and notes misinterpretations that have resulted from the use of the term "syntactic maturity" for "syntactic complexity." (DD)

Recommends having students proofread each other's papers, thereby increasing student incentive to write carefully and reducing the amount of teacher time spent correcting mechanical errors. (TJ)

An unsettling odyssey through the world of high school composition shows a need for a tough new approach in teaching students to write. (Author)

College reading programs can be designed for limited departmental budgets and integrate reading, writing, speaking, and thinking within content areas. To teach reading successfully within content areas calls for careful coordination with the students' other academic courses. A description and evaluation of a program used at Douglass College is…

Discusses a French course designed to help students learn the dynamics of good writing and become sensitive to style. The approach to teaching writing relies on in-class editing of compositions that students produce on a weekly basis. (NCR)