Explains how a year of observing two successful novelists write and revise on the computer provided a number of ideas that are encapsulated in the concept of a fluid text or the writer's conscious avoidance of a text that becomes static or fixed. (HOD)

Highlights children as a source of information about curriculum development. Observes how and why some first grade children write, and how this may affect teachers' instructional assumptions. (HTH)

Describes the power of adult writing groups to stimulate learning and encourage language development, personal development, and writing skill development. (CRH)

Describes a research project for teachers on reading and writing in which teachers meet regularly in small groups to share their creative writing. (EL)

Responds to Raymond Rodrigues's l985 "English Journal" article presenting reservations about a too-narrow and too-dogmatic definition and application of the writing process approach to the teaching of writing. Addresses concerns that the article would provide ammunition from the traditionalists and that new writing process converts would find…

Describes a project that provided students with the opportunity to observe and comment on their own writing throughout the year through observations of their childhood writing, a series of journal writings, and writing taken through revision. (EL)

Suggests the growing use of computers to process information in today's world increases the human need for an interactive competency in writing and reading. The integration of instruction in reading and writing, particularly through use of word processors, is discussed as a way to strengthen this interaction. (MBR)

Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that first-grade beginning readers could evaluate the referential-communicative adequacy of simple, two-word messages better if they received oral-plus-written messages rather than oral-only messages. Results indicated that oral-plus-written messages were significantly easier for children to…

Notes that while the importance of writing instruction and the development of better newswriters is a key concern of the journalism profession, journalism texts and journals show little awareness of advances in the composition field, such as process instruction, epistemology, invention, and revision. (HTH)

Defends the use of the word processor in writing classes. Describes how using it makes revision easier and cleaner, contributes to the speed and fluency of composing at the keyboard, and lends itself to new ways of composing and experiments with alternative structures for writing courses and classes. (EL)

The programing process is similar to methods employed in writing a composition. The author, in each case, must understand the subject, know the audience, outline material, and make revisions until the finished product works flawlessly. English instructors could teach programing and free math instructors to teach mathematics. (MBR)

Discusses what a spontaneously formed group of three children thought and did as they composed a story together. The observations focus on the whole writing process. (HTH)

Presents three general professional concerns to help teachers ride the third wave of computer technology, and three forms of CAI to enhance the recursive cycle of their students' writing. (CRH)

Results of a study on 10th-grade students to assess the effect of cognitive development stages upon writing showed that cognitive level is related to syntactic maturity across modes of composition. Research data and methodology are presented. (DF)

Advocates fostering student writers' best efforts by creating ungraded, high word volume writing courses. (CRH)