Describes a writing exercise in which students write letters to a variety of people. (TJ)

Describes an exercise that encourages writing by students. Each student is given a limited amount of time to write about anything that comes to mind, the papers are redistributed and a second student adds to what has been written, a third student adds more, and a fourth student writes a conclusion. (TJ)

Describes an exercise in learning about persuasion using a NASA exercise in group decision-making centered on a theoretical crash landing on the moon. Students experience the power of the authoritative voice, the persuasive power of facts, the bandwagon approach, and group manipulation. (TJ)

Describes the use of a popular magazine column to stimulate discussion and to motivate writing using specific marriage difficulties as input. This technique affords opportunities for role play, short story writing, and letter writing. (TJ)

Advocates the use of a language experience approach in teaching reading and writing to Preschool children. (CM)

Urges teachers to set up a program for testing writing which uses holistic scoring. (DD)

Argues that rhetoric, essay, and composition are not the same because each has a different history, purpose, and text structure. The composition is the easiest and most practical form to teach in a writing class for students of English as a second language. (CFM)

Describes an approach to teaching the research paper which involves getting students to research and write about subjects of current interest to them. (DD)

Describes a technique which involves asking students to first write an opinion paper and then to transform it into a research paper. (DD)

Teaching and testing writing can be structured so that the student progresses through a number of stages involving copying and developing sentences from: nonprint visual stimuli, manipulation of the printed word, visual stimulus by means of word completions, and oral stimuli. Sample exercises and evaluation formula are presented. (SW)

Brief individual conferences between teacher and student during the course of writing a composition helps the student to clarify his or her thinking on the topic, thus improving writing skills and developing enthusiasm and pleasure in written communication. (JD)

Asserts that creative writing can be taught in grades 1-4. After a full discussion of the subject, teaching procedures are described. A list is presented of imaginative topics for pupils, such as "conversation between pigeons on the railroad station square" and "advertisement for a dangerous product." (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the process of observation and presents a systematic approach for incorporating behavioral observations into evaluations and written psychological reports, based on Robert Carkhuff's Human Resource Development Model. Using this framework and drawing on the experiences of the authors, several principles of report writing are discussed.…

Children will write well only when they speak in their own voices about their own concerns. (DD)

Describes a course at a women's college designed to provide practice in reading and writing skills while teaching basics of automobile and home maintenance. (DD)