An instructor recounts the benefits he experienced from teaching a course in imaginative writing to an adult class. (MLF)

Suggests that using Francis Christensen's method of analyzing paragraphs can help students improve their own paragraph development. (TJ)

Describes a class session in a technical writing course, in which the teacher helps students define the role of the applied sciences and understand how technical writing fits into this role. (GW)

Classifies the complexity of the mental processes involved in combining kernel sentences, recasting flawed sentences, and composing original sentences based on rhetorical models. (DD)

Children's sense of audience in writing can be enhanced by conscious audience analysis, exercises in taking other points of view, and writing sessions encouraging peer interaction. (DD)

Discusses ten ERIC documents which offer suggestions for integrating writing activities with oral language, ongoing classroom experiences, and literature. (DD)

Standardized tests, with their preoccupation with correctness, encourage barren formulaic writing by students. (DD)

Discusses the conflict between the intentional fallacy in reading (it is inappropriate to deduce literary intention from effects) and the intentional imperative in writing (intention is necessary to our understanding while writing). (DD)

Showing students the basic nature of reading may help them reduce the errors in the writing they submit to teachers while encouraging student reading. (DD)

A fictional account which points out that writing involves both exploration and communication and that students should be taught to explore both themselves and their political environment. (DD)

Eight ideas to motivate children to write. (CM)

Demonstrates how fourth grade students can help one another to improve the rough drafts of their compositions. (DD)

A teacher describes a technique for helping students discover exactly what they want to write about and how to develop and expand an original idea. (JD)

The writing style of many college students is deplorably florid; in the hope of sounding "educated" they use long words where short ones will do just as well. (JD)

Describes an experimental course in "Literature through Science" designed to improve students' expository writing skills while teaching them about science. (DD)