Suggestions to student journalists on learning to write effective, attention-grabbing leads to news stories. (RL)

Examines ERIC documents that discuss some of the writing problems of learning disabled students. Suggests classroom instructional strategies to help the learning disabled student best overcome his or her specific difficulty. (HTH)

Views technical writing as a discipline requiring skills basic to communication, with some distinctive elements, including that it is written by assignment and often to specification, is highly situational, is an analytic problem-solving process, and is a "real world" art. (TJ)

Since enthymemes (or "rhetorical syllogisms") always shape the prose of anyone writing to convey an idea, students should be trained to recognize the enthymemes they use. (DD)

Insisting that student writers always use definite, specific, concrete language when they write can prevent them from using language to understand, transform, and relate immediate experience to everything else. (DD)

Describes how a knowledge of writing mechanics, subject matter, and communication principles are involved in effectively translating firsthand information into technical writing; stresses the importance of audience awareness. (MAI)

Suggests the importance of writing newspaper stories with a fresh angle and illustrates the point liberally. (TJ)

Describes how a "style analysis" sheet may be used in helping students to develop a more concrete and vigorous prose style. (DD)

Encourages English teachers to promote letter writing among their students. (DD)

Presents the benefits to be derived from journal writing and provides 47 ideas for journal writing. (DD)

An examination of the writing of an elementary school student shows how students' revisions in their papers and complete rewrites of them are indications of their writing development. (DD)

Provides guidelines for teaching students to write descriptive and informative abstracts and describes the benefits of such instruction. (DD)

Identifies and discusses four basic skills needed for good report writing: collecting and recording information; notetaking; using reference sources; and organizing notes for writing. (JMB)

Describes a study which led to the conclusion that teachers of writing should stress audience sensitivity instead of mistakenly focusing on language as an object. (DD)