Reflects on the importance of observation and documentation of detail in producing critical thinking and accurate writing. (AEA)

Recommends using young adult literature to teach basic composition skills. (JL)

Outlines a course designed to teach students how to write descriptive and informative abstracts. (HOD)

Compares five style manuals for their differences in stipulating the mechanical rules of preparing research reports. Notes that the really necessary criteria for judging technical writing are legibility, effective presentation, and honesty of content. (RL)

Provides guidelines for high school editors to help improve their paper's operation, image, and content, including devising a style manual and covering school board, faculty, parent, and administration activities. (HTH)

Proposes a technique that will help high school and beginning college writers move from writer-based to reader-based prose through dramatic presentations. (FL)

Presents and discusses research on the intellectual processes that writers engage in to attain what is commonly called "audience awareness." (RL)

Provides guidelines for establishing a business writing laboratory for college to meet student needs. Suggests ways to select and train tutors, prepare materials, and develop an effective public relations program for the lab. Offers sample materials used in one such lab. (FL)

Argues against the proliferation of translation theories and theoretical courses for translators, stating a preference for an approach that focuses on practical principles. Also discusses issues such as the relationship between lexicology and terminology, the editor's role, and translator's qualifications and responsibilities towards the receptor.…

States the need for placing greater emphasis on writing and less on translation, particularly in a country such as Canada where two official languages require many translations and where the French language is constantly threatened by the overwhelming pressure of English. Sees translation quality as largely dependent on quality writing.…

Examines the marginal benefits and possible harm of teaching intensive traditional grammar to writing students. (HTH)

Describes a program designed to familiarize students with library research methods. (FL)

Presents specific ideas for using television as a springboard to instruction in reading, writing, and other subject areas. (FL)

Notes the unintentional humor so often found in directions. Describes an assignment on writing directions carefully--and the humorous results. (RL)

Calls for a new, nonprescriptive pedagogy of writing based on the concept of writing as conversation. An addendum describes an experimental writing course based on a design borrowed from the traditional life-drawing class. (HOD)