Discusses a writing program that specifies a skill level which students must demonstrate before entering freshman level courses. (MB)

Explains how reality therapy offers ideas and procedures for teaching technical writing and helps students learn to accept the responsibility of writing. (MB)

Describes seven steps of technical reporting developed by the English and Social Studies departments of the Southeast Regional Vocational Technical School in South Easton Massachusetts. (MB)

Discusses types of evaluation appropriate with elementary school writing. (AA)

Considers the demands being placed on English departments for better teaching of writing and calls for a new emphasis on research in the teaching of writing. (AA)

An individualized first-quarter composition course. (AA)

Indicates through regression analyses that (1) the Ziller, Martell, and Morrison self-differentiation measure and (2) Crockett's Role Category Questionnaire are significantly related and significant predictors of the criterion variables. Found Bieri et al.'s measure to be virtually unrelated to any of the study variables. (JD)

Concludes that handwriting instruction improves writing ability because students who have mastered the basic skills of handwriting are able to concentrate on the process of composition rather than transcription. (SRT)

The principal of an Indiana high school relates how he involved staff in the development of a writing program (Project Write) through the use of "skills models." Includes references. (MD)

This study examined the effects of low- and high-prior knowledge and peer and teacher audiences on high school students' writing. Forty high school juniors and 40 seniors wrote on both low-prior knowledge and high-prior knowledge topics, half writing for their peers, and half for their teachers. Results are presented. (Author/MT)

Contends that there is no literacy crisis, and that the means for solving it have been manufactured to increase corporate profits, and increase the power of the Pentagon to ensure these profits. (JAD)

Argues that instructors need to think more systematically about how to prepare students to write good essay examinations. Demonstrates that higher levels of learning involving integration, synthesis, evaluation, and application are essential for this type of testing. Concludes that the significance of efficient writing skills is as important as…

This study examined the relationship between direct (essay) and indirect (objective) assessment of writing skills using 320 college students in remedial courses as subjects. Correlations and results of factor analysis are discussed. (MT)

Presents and explains a faculty questionnaire designed to give technical writing teachers insights on: (1) types of papers that should be assigned, (2) subject matter for assigned papers, and (3) strategies of inquiry or problem solving from rhetorical invention or research methodology in students' chosen fields. (SRT)

Interviews W.P. Kinsella about his views on a number of subjects, including how he began his career as an author, how he creates his stories, and why students should study modern writing. (DF)