Identifies images of classroom management that are compatible with current images of learning, using scenes from one learner-centered classroom as examples. The paper argues for a much closer conceptual link between content and instruction, noting the term management must take on a new set of meanings for all participants. (SM)

Examines the means by which women convey their authority in scholarly publications. Analyzes a sample of women's scholarship in technical communication journals. Considers whether traditional writing features conflict with traits associated with "women's ways" of knowing. Suggests areas for future research. (HB)

Reports on a survey of 40 geographically representative state and private universities with sizable composition programs. Documents both the need for and interest in peer coaching of teaching assistants. (MG)

Acknowledging that students learning a second language need opportunities for extended spoken and written interactions with native speakers, this paper describes instructional computer networking that links grade 12 Anglophone students of French in Toronto with native French-speaking peers in Montreal. Focus is on writing skills. (25 references)…

Describes a flexible model for developing library research skills based on analysis of a relevant text. Students begin by tracing endnotes, reflecting on purpose each cited source serves in fulfilling writer's goals, and practicing locating similar resources. Model can be adapted to individual instruction, group instruction, or computer assisted…

English teachers developed several activities for their ninth- and tenth-grade students using basic word processing capabilities. The materials described include guided writing (a job application form); passages involving cloze and pair work; relating details from a story; and work with a song and its written text. (CNP)

A one-year study is reported that addresses whether and in which way grammatically computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can help English writing instruction in a Taiwanese setting. Results of a CALL courseware intervention with first-year college students suggest that classroom instruction combined with grammatical CALL is at least not…

An inductive and interactive classroom technique to help advanced French language students reformulate simplified schemata into more useful insights into French grammar is described. It is proposed that, by developing the ability to revise continually structural hypotheses, students can expand syntactic repertories and improve long-term language…

Use of in-class writing assignments in a college chemistry course, intended to help students form and express new concepts, was also found to increase students' sense of participation and feeling of control over learning and to help the instructor assess learning and further instructional needs. Some resistance was also discovered. (MSE)

Explains how one teacher consultant helped students and teachers in an inner-city elementary school learn to use computers in their literature-based, word-processing supported writing program. (MG)

Great Britain's National Curriculum places insufficient emphasis on handwriting instruction, and its suggestion to begin joined-up writing in Level 3 is inappropriate. A historical perspective on variations in handwriting style leads to a recommendation for a simple joined style, which would be based on the skeletal italic and taught by example.…

Reviews trends in composition instruction in two-year colleges, including an emphasis on information literacy, critical thinking skills, and writing across the curriculum; and discusses parallel developments in the field of bibliographic instruction. Recommends an approach to incorporating critical thinking, new technologies, and program…

Recent composition and literary theory suggests that the "I" of written discourse is illusory and does not represent an autonomous self. Argues for the development of a self-conscious voice in college writers that interprets in addition to merely recording events, a voice enabling students to enter into dialogue with teachers, texts, and…

Describes in detail how a writing instructor in an English secondary school imposed his view of reality on a Bangladeshi boy when correcting the boy's writing. Suggests that schools must work hard to develop and adopt new styles of pedagogy to avoid ethnocentrism in the classroom. (PRA)

Factors which influenced the success of a New York staff development program designed to improve student writing included district commitment, voluntary participation, in-district training workshops, on-site support, principals' support, parents' understanding, and continuous followup. Teachers learned the importance of seeing content first and…