Describes the "colleague swap" method for improving student writing skills in undergraduate psychology courses. After writing term papers, students exchange papers with each other for evaluation, proofreading, and critiquing. After the evaluation, students may revise their work before submitting it for grading. (AM)

Discusses the importance of effective written communication to the successful management of business enterprises. Examines the significance of correct spelling and the development of spelling competence. (CT)

Relates the experiences of a poet who helped 30 10-year-old children write and understand poetry. Contains examples of the students' work. (FL)

Offers tips on the use of direct and indirect quotations in feature articles based on speeches and interviews. (RL)

Examines the role of communications in accounting, with particular emphasis on the accounting education. (FL)

A novelist, poet, and painter describes her method of teaching creative writing. (AEA)

Offers a primer in educationese for administrators who want to obscure meanings or sound pretentious and also provides some suggestions for those who do not want to abuse the English language. (Author/WD)

Discusses the qualities that move nonfiction writing to a literature of fact: intellectual content, passionate enthusiasm, and a writing style that incorporates storytelling skill, descriptive power, vivid prose, graphic excellence, and sharply defined focus. (AEA)

Through the process of writing and rewriting a committed voice can be recovered in which individuals are allowed to find out what they think, say what they think, and then stop. (HOD)

Describes a feature writing class and an advanced magazine writing class in which students write and submit articles to magazines. (GT)

From the language labs to algebra class, writing instruction is an integral part of the total curriculum at Hanover High School in New Hampshire. (Author/MLF)

Suggests ways of developing student skills in writing letters of request. (RL)

Argues that too little information on audience analysis is available to technical writers and suggests that such analysis should be done in relation to the reader's level of competence and motivation. (TJ)

Provides examples of lively, interesting yearbook copy and outlines 12 rules for writing effective copy. (GT)

Suggests five criteria against which any revised approach to research writing ought to be tested. Concludes with some general remarks about the shaping of future courses in research writing. (RL)