An exploratory study of quantitative measurement of syntactic and rhetorical fluency examined students' writing near the beginning and near the end of a two-quarter, freshman English program. The syntactic analysis focused on the clause, which was classified according to basic syntactic type and elaborating syntactic structures. The rhetorical…

This report of remedial education at University of California--Berkeley assumes that students should be given adequate information about academic demands and their own capabilities, that they have the responsibility to prepare themselves in advance for these demands, that they should have access to academic support services on campus, and that…

To determine the effectiveness of a program for reteaching writing skills, students from ten intermediate classrooms in three schools, who achieved poor scores on a screening instrument or received teacher evaluations indicating low skill levels, participated in this study. An experimental group of 78 subjects received a pretest, a program of ten…

This instrument for describing writing is designed for use by teachers and researchers at the secondary and college levels. The two main sections are an outline of the complete instrument and the instrument itself. Various categories of the instrument can be used to describe general, descriptive, and explanatory prose; other categories are related…

Described is the need for simplicity and clarity in written business communication. Some ways that instructors of business subjects can more effectively teach this writing skill to students are presented. (MS)

Guidelines for constructing resumes are developed based on an analysis of the responses of 205 personnel managers to a questionnaire eliciting their opinions regarding various aspects of resume preparation. (Author)

An assignment to write a comment in less than fifty words encourages conciseness and precision. (JH)

Describes a project that stressed affective objectives, teacher familiarity with students and their culture, and frequent verbalization and writing activities, which resulted in improved school achievement and a lower dropout rate. (MKM)

Proposes guidelines for program objectives, course content, internship, and other considerations in preparing doctoral students in business communication. (RL)

Trade books offer many possibilities for teaching reading and writing skills. (MKM)

Some principles that are imporant in both legal drafting and expository writing are discussed, including the value of beginning to write before completing all necessary research, and of developing a hierarchical structure, or outline. These steps encourage feedback as to what further information is needed and allow uninterrupted thinking. (JMD)

Discusses a writing exercise in which students are asked to describe a painting and analyze their response to it. (TJ)

Exercises in sketching a scene of words, focusing, describing elemental structure (using comparison, contrast, analogy, and antithesis), and sketching and writing about still-life arrangements can heighten students' awareness of sense impressions and lead to improved writing skills. (TJ)