Suggests that, while much of teaching business communications is journeywork, emphasizing audience and response means that there is a humanistic element also. (TJ)

Tentative conclusions were that controlled sentence practice and sentence combining can increase the overall writing effectiveness and syntactic maturity of college students in a single semester. (DD)

Studied how college students altered their syntax when they received direct instruction in sentence combining. (DD)

Provides a framework for understanding how children's intentions in learning interact with varying learning contexts as children make the transition from speech to writing and develop control over the written medium. (DD)

Describes the use of a dialectic theme as the basic assignment in a freshman composition course. (MKM)

Demonstrates key concepts of transformational generative grammar that can be applied to a discussion of the composing process. Discusses relevant linguistic concepts and selected transformational processes to illustrate how writers achieve certain effects. (RL)

Maintains that ineffective and ungrammatical writing by college students is unacceptable and suggests how political science teachers on the college level can help students improve their writing skills in conjunction with the substantive purposes of a political science course. (Author/DB)

Outlines a team game, designed to help students learn to organize the material they have collected for a paper, in which the teacher provides scrambled topic sentences that are to be put into a reasonable order. (TJ)

Suggests ways student reviewers of rock music groups can write better reviews. Among the suggestions made are that reviewers occasionally discuss the audience or what makes a particular group unique, support general comment with detail, and avoid ecstatic adjectives. (TJ)

Suggests some theoretical explanations to account for the fact that some people are better able to communicate in writing than others, basing these explanations on second language acquisition research. (DD)

Maintains that if progress in teaching writing has bogged down, the reason is a lack of teacher involvement in effective in-service programs. (Author)

Suggests a method for helping students eliminate trite expressions from their writing and examine values that have been passed on to them by authority figures. (TJ)

The article describes the development of creative writing ability in the three- to seven-year-old gifted child. Examples of the writing of this age group are used to illustrate the stages in the development of writing ability. (PHR)

Presents a method for helping students learn to evaluate data, draw conclusions, and state a most probable hypothesis in writing essays. (TJ)

Describes a program that gives high school students training in three aspects of journalism as well as field experience. (DD)