Presents strategies to increase the flow of writing so that students become more attuned to the usefulness of words in capturing thoughts, feelings, and impressions. (RL)

Discusses the use of video in teaching poetry composition, where the video equipment becomes a feedback tool to help students write and present better poems. (CMV)

Two Ohio State University faculty members discuss writing problems prevalent among entering college students and describe that institution's Writing Workshop program. (GC)

From her experiences as a writing consultant, the author gives examples of ways to motivate clients to improve their writing skills. (PD)

Teaching writing as an artistic process, rather than as a series of rules to be followed, profoundly affects the way teachers approach their job. Students must be individually helped to discover their own best voice: their ideas, the most effective forms for them, the most effective language for them. (MLW)

Describes a project that allowed students to become familiar with computerized research while completing an assigned writing task. (FL)

Notes that one of the toughest jobs when teaching future journalists is to convince them to control their use of description while permitting originality in their work. (RL)

Reviews 12 recent texts, supplements, kits and professional references for composition instruction at various grade levels from kindergarten to eighth grade. (SJL)

Describes the study skills center at California State University, San Diego, which has achieved considerable success in improving students' basic writing skills by offering a set of minicourses in cooperation with the English and business departments. (FL)

Patterns of misspelling common to children's writing are examined to help teachers recognize the strategies used by developing spellers so that they can provide more focused and individualized spelling instruction. (HTH)

Results showed that LD Ss scored significantly lower than normal Ss on most written expression abilities, expecially in the mechanical tasks of spelling, punctuation, and word usage. For related information see EC 132 758-768. (Author)

The article presents an approach to informal assessment of written expression which allows the teacher to determine the skills acquired and correctly used by the student, the skills needing remediation, and the skills to be introduced. For related information see EC 132 758-767. (Author)

An examination to evaluate prescription writing was administered to a group of pediatric house officers and faculty at the University of Arizona. The data indicate that prescription writing should be taught to house officers, and that the therapeutic knowledge of beginning pediatric interns cannot be assumed to be adequate. (Author/MLW)

Suggests ways to work on writing logically and coherently. (RL)

Discusses the method used for rewriting a piece of technical text to improve readability, compares several readability measures of the revised text, and notes difficulties encountered in the study. (CHC)