Author discusses rhetoric, lists characteristics of rhetorical", i.e. analytical and argumentative, writing, and suggests approaches for the classroom teacher. (SP)

Includes sample forms used in the study to elicit students' compositions and examples of those compositions. (SW)

A teacher describes a creative writing assignment in which students wrote their own obituaries. (SP)

Discusses the reasons for the incompetence of the majority of American high school, college, graduate students, and even English teachers to write easily and freely, and proposes some methods for preventing these inadequacies in the future. (AN)

A freshman composition course at Cochise College (Arizona) uses discussion of current issues with members of the community to stimulate the students' interest in expressing their ideas. (NF)

The importance of high school students having many kinds of writing experiences is stressed. These experiences include writing to" himself, for" himself, to" others, for" others, and with" others. (Author/LF)

As physics becomes more and more specialized, the task of the professional science writer in interpreting discoveries and research in physics for the public becomes very difficult. A professional journalist explains how he meets this challenge. (LC)

The author discusses writing Spanish in the elementary schools of Puerto Rico. They have much the same problems that we do in the U.S. (MR)

Author extends Christensen's theories on paragraph development to formulate a sequence of development for longer compositions, and includes diagrams of sample sequences. (SP)

Suggestions to promote a better association between author and editor. (IR)