Rejects the premise that all parts must be related to the whole and to each other in a written composition. (Author/RB)

Music and English departments at Stephen T. Austin State University, Texas, combine efforts to teach writing skills and music appreciation. (DS)

This study reveals that pupil's writing in secondary schools is viewed predominantly by teachers as a means of gaining feedback and is only rarely seen as a means whereby a child can organize thoughts and feelings. (Author)

The use of diacritical marking facilitates learning to read and the benefits are neither specific to reading in that medium nor to reading in general. It may well prove that the most significant improvements are in the field of writing. (Authors/MB)

An account of the testing program for written English administered by the Teacher Education Committee of the State College of Arkansas during the 1970-71 school year, with emphasis on those who failed the tests: statistical breakdown and results of remedial classes. (Author/SP)

Author suggests that pupils will write more coherent and unified compositions if they are taught to look for the logical connection between parts, looking to see if two parts are joined by an and" relationship, an and then" relationship, a but" relationship, a more specifically" relationship or a therefore" relationship. (PD)

Describes a unique program at the University of Scranton where prospective English teachers in an advanced English class served as teacher assistants in a freshman English course and benefited greatly thereby. (AN)

Describes a writing assignment in which students wrote letters from their seventeen-year-old selves addressed and directed to their selves of the year 2000. (Author/MB)

CEHAE is an acronym for concept, example, highlighting, activity, and evaluation. (MB)

Author believes that all forms of communication are enhanced by the use of similes and he writes the entire article in similes to prove it. (RB)