Sets out a list of 10 principles to instill in students of business communication and calls for papers and responses to the list. (AEA)

Discusses three facets of classical invention: (1) the use of topics, (2) the distinction of kinds of issues, and (3) the difference between technical and nontechnical methods of argument. (AEA)

A study of an experimental technique of grading papers after they were returned to students for correction, instead of before they were returned. (DD)

This article, the second in a four-part series on concerns of shorthand teachers, discusses contrasting beliefs relating to improving shorthand instruction. (HD)

The author described a course in freshman composition that he designed. In it students were taught not only to write effectively but also to study composers and other artists. The intention was for students to learn about persons who created musical works and other art while learning about themselves. (RK)

The Fry Graph for Estimating Readability can be used to provide students with feedback concerning the complexity of their writing. (KS)

This article delineates a study which examines both the historical basis of Hmong literacy development (in the years before they left Laos) as well as the more recent history (since 1975) of a Hmong group that settled in northern Wisconsin. The article discusses the development and functions of literacy in the United States, particularly as…

Inviting students to look, explore, and think, this booklet offers practical ways for teachers to use museums--in particular, the artworks, artifacts, collections, and other materials they contain--as a basis for secondary students' writing. If taking students on field trips is not feasible, educators can adapt most of the activities in the…

This paper discusses the importance of stylistic variety to the writing of beautiful language, even as that writing is used as a tool of critical consciousness. It begins by discussing the application of style for socially responsible rhetorical communication, through revealing to students that language used in multiple rhetorical situations both…

Comments on the disadvantages facing writing teachers in open admissions colleges. (RB)

Provides and discusses eight rules that make up an "optimum legibility formula" for newspaper writing. The rules can also apply to other writing forms. (TO)