Compositions of 1000 words were collected from 32 eighth-graders and 32 twelfth-graders in Manitowac, Wisconsin. In each grade, 16 males and 16 females were equally distributed into two ability groups based on IQ. Data from the writing samples were analyzed with an analysis of variance in which the factors were grade, sex, and ability level. The…

The emphasis in the essays printed here is on the problems students face in writing and the problems teachers face in helping their students to improve. The contents include: "New and Renewed Rhetorics: Implications for Teaching,""Experience in Awareness, an Introduction to Creative Writing,""An Experiment with Christensen's 'Rhetoric of the…

Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the Spanish theater in the 20th century, this guide is designed to improve students' reading and writing skills and knowledge of human values, contemporary philosophy, and character portrayal through class dramatizations of plays. Some of the objectives for the course include analysis and discussion…

Students of Spanish in the United States who are native speakers of Spanish need courses designed to meet their special linguistic needs. The tendency has been for teachers to place negative value judgments on the Spanish dialects spoken by Mexican-Americans. Instead, courses should be based on the areas in which the native Spanish speaker needs…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions for using the newspaper to teach remedial reading to junior high school students. Program A discusses a reading program built on motivation and contemporary materials to reach students who are completely turned off by standard reading books. Program B…

Students at first, fourth, seventh, and tenth grade levels and at graduate levels chose conjunctions "and" and "but" in two-clause sentences with varying degrees of logical relationship, with similar or contrasting clauses. Grade, type of relationship, and similarity were variables in a 5 x 3 x 2 repeated measures analysis of response to logical…

The course is designed to provide students with the skill and knowledge needed to compose effective business reports, including format of a report, informal and formal reports, minutes of meetings, agendas, itineraries, new releases, and advertising copy. Prerequisites include Business Grammar in Good Taste, Spell It Right, and Typing Business…

Open admissions as an educational policy in higher education depends upon the success of remediation programs in English and especially in composition courses. Because so many English majors will spend part of all of their professional lives teaching, their training at both the undergraduate and graduate levels should prepare them for teaching,…

The methodology used in the Maine Assessment of Educational Progress in Citizenship and Writing is described in this report. The chapters of the report are: I. Introduction--background and purpose of the project, sampling considerations, Exercise Package development, administration and scoring, and data analysis plan; II. Sample Design--general…

This paper summarizes several research studies related to reading and writing disabilities in children. The major purpose of these investigations was to test some of the German theories on dyslexia, especially regarding visual perceptual problems, spatial orientation, and dominance factors. The dyslexic child, as defined in Germany and used in…

Presented is DUB (description, use, and benefits of an idea), a format for special education teachers to use in writing descriptions of self-developed materials and methods; and included are six examples of the format. The DUB format prescribes the inclusion in brief essay form of the following information: descriptive material (structural…

This study was designed to explore one method of intervening in the process of a conventional academic classroom to affect student attitude and improve the learning climate. Two college freshman composition classes of 22 students each provided the subjects for the study. Each class was taught by the same instructor for three hours a week; one…

In contrast to language-teaching systems which stress conversation, this system for teaching Arabic starts by presenting the written language. One reason for doing so is that knowing how to write Arabic characters helps students to remember the unfamiliar sounds of this language. A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program was felt to be more…

The purpose of this volume is to acquaint the student with the historical development of the Russian language and literature. Samples of the original works with English translations and lists of recommended readings are provided. Contents include a review of Russian literature by century, samples of the short story "Samizdat," and major…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Spelling More Endings; Matching Sentence Parts; Using the Right Sentence Connectives; More Ways to Make Sentences Effective; and Last of the Confusing Word Pairs. Each lesson concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)