Notes that using magazine advertisements to teach sales letter writing can help students understand sales techniques they see daily, but do not think much about. Presents a four-point strategy to help them put together effective sales letters. (FL)

Points to errors frequently committed by student journalists in writing yearbook photograph captions and designing graphics. (GT)

Presents a way of teaching process explanation in a technical writing course. Urges that the assignment ask students to explain a process they have learned from experience or from observation. (TJ)

Notes that style is important in technical writing and is affected by content, audience, and the writer's purpose. (TJ)

Describes the approach used in teaching an English graduate course entitled "The Teaching of Writing to Speakers of Dialect." (DD)

Suggests that technical writing courses and general writing courses should have the same goal: the development of thoughtful, communicating adults. (MKM)

Suggests that in order to be relevant to students, freshman English courses should emphasize contemporary readings and technical writing. (MKM)

The responsibilities of the alumni editor to the reader and to the author are discussed, and principles of good editing including how to edit interviews, convert speeches into articles, and edit class and club notes are covered. (JMF)

Since the new form of the People's University Certificate English 1 does not include dictation, course directors and specialists in foreign language teaching query whether dictation still has a place in teaching English as a foreign language, and what its pedagogical function might be. (IFS/WGA)

An illustrated sequential collection of written observations from twentieth-century publishers and professors responding to a young scholar with a manuscript on nineteenth-century British parodists (period titles added) is presented. (Author/MLW)

Describes a series of "Writing across the Curriculum Workshops" for faculty members at Michigan Technological University. (DD)

Encourages teachers to view writing as a process creating meaning, enabling the writer to come to grips with complex experience. (DD)

Calls for a redefinition of literacy and basics. Acknowledges the expanded classroom and the fact that new partnerships must be established with those who teach beyond the campuses. Educators must acknowledge the communications revolution and help students become more sophisticated as communicators. (JMF)

Suggests using a puzzle with a frame to demonstrate to students the value of an introduction and an outline in writing. (TJ)

Summarizes a method for teaching composition that allows for practice in straight composition, the opportunity for self-expression, and the getting of feedback by asking students to write a paragraph in response to a specific question about the text for the week and a second paragraph of reaction to the text. (TJ)