Presents some guidelines designed to facilitate ghostwriting assignments for the individual who is practicing or learning the skills for the first time or has limited experience. (RB)

Describes a testing program to identify journalism students who need remedial work in spelling and grammar. (TO)

One of the most valuable uses of microcomputers and word processors in composition instruction is in the teaching of writing revision. A number of activities can be carried out with these tools; for example, (1) after appropriate instruction on revision, students can be given prewritten text and asked to revise it on the word processors; (2) after…

A NEW METHOD OF TEACHING WRITING TO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS PRESENTED. THE AUTHOR DEFINES LEARNING TO WRITE, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER LANGUAGE SKILLS (ORAL PRODUCTION, GRAMMAR, AND READING), AS A PROCESS THAT REQUIRES ACTIVE THOUGHT IN THE NECESSARY SELECTION AND ORGANIZATION OF EXPERIENCE. WRITING…

A SEQUENTIAL AND FLEXIBLE PROGRAM IN COMPOSITION IS PRESENTED WHICH PREVENTS INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OF THE SAME SKILLS AND PLACES THE EMPHASIS ON REAL WRITING SKILLS RATHER THAN MERE MECHANICAL CORRECTNESS. THIS PUBLICATION STATES WHAT NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT TO PRODUCE SATISFACTORY WRITING AT ALL LEVELS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH COLLEGE. IT SUGGESTS AN…

This paper presents a theory of instruction in the art of rhetorical invention and provides a basis for making decisions about teaching it. Invention is the process of inquiry through which one arrives at propositions and develops arguments in support of them. The author argues that by teaching invention along with the other arts of rhetoric,…

"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes can be used as a stimulus for encouraging students to use concrete language and metaphor in writing a poem. Students are asked to imitate the shape and form of the poem and then talk about how it feels to be a poet, find images from other poems they like, imitate other poems, and discuss the difference…

Teaching writing is the frustrating part of teaching English as a second language, yet a secondary-school level student who is literate in his own language can be guided into writing a simple paragraph in English soon after he can read one. Guided writing limits the variety of errors a student can make, gives repeated practice in using a selected…

We need a different view of teaching writing--a principle that allows us to formulate sequential learning environments with specific objectives--what the author chooses to call the Principle of Redundancy. This principle provides the student with meaningful choices about how he will learn. It states, "In any language course, parallel back-up…

A revision of the first edition of "News Editing," this is a textbook for the newspaper editor. The duties of the editor are detailed, as are those of other newspaper employees. Among the basic editing skills the author includes suggestions for sentence structure, word usage, and vocabulary. Examples are given of editing for objectivity, handling…

Writing poems about sports is a way to incorporate writing skills in a language experience approach to poetry. (JH)

Examination of children with developmental dsygraphia (inability to write) suggests the need to instruct young children in the basic principles of the writing process including phonemic analysis, transcription rules, morphemic analysis, script, and style. (DB)

Describes the use of accuracy surveys as a means of making students aware of the need for detailed information when citing or quoting sources in news stories. (RB)

The value of Strong's sentence-combining materials in increasing the syntactic maturity of first-year university students is tested and found positive. (KR)