A retired teacher argues that a return to fundamentals in elementary schools and a change in the policy of social promotion in schools are primary to improving the quality of education. (JMF)

Reviews research to establish that it has not proven that instruction in grammar has no effect on student writing. (DD)

As a supplement to the available games for use in teaching, two writing games are presented, with suggestions for their use. They are recommended as a motivating device. A list of pertinent works on the subject is also provided. (IFS/WGA)

Suggests a program for improving technical writing skills of college students. Includes remedial courses for deficient students and English composition and technical writing courses for geosciences majors. Recommends a cooperative effort between English and geoscience departments. (MA)

A model for teaching writing, which takes into account different kinds of school writing and a combination of oral and writing skills, is suggested. (Author/AM)

There are a number of significant obstacles in the path of the printed word, three of which are examined in this piece. (Editor)

Methods for applying individualization in marking work are presented, and include an explanation of the differentiation between marking and correcting, the meaning of focus, and a discussion of the purpose of the initial conference, as well as other aspects of individualization. (HP)

The author suggests that it is time to teach writing with a holistic approach that will produce students who can write and read equally well, and, if commercial publishers do not create well-focused writing programs, that teachers should develop their own instructional materials. (Author/RK)

Business educators must improve the teaching of machine transcription so that students acquire employable transcribing skills, states the author, who describes five levels of learning machine transcription and gives examples of the listening, writing, and typing skills needed for correct transcription. (MF)

Suggestions for preparing an effective proposal concern the following areas: selecting the granting agency; ascertaining the originality, clarity, and worth of the proposed activity on the basis of a bibliographic search; the central thesis, title, outline, and abstract; proposal drafting and revision; and choice of language, syntax, and grammar.…

Language development has been insufficiently considered as a whole. This article surveys linguistic measures of which there are many; stylish measures that have not on the whole been seen developmentally; cognitive measures of which there are few; and affective measures particularly in relation to "maturity" of which there are scarcely any. As an…

Teachers should respond to children's writing in positive, encouraging ways. (DD)

Cites results from more than a dozen research studies generally favoring the use of the typewriter as a teaching tool in the elementary school classroom. (BR)

There is evidence that the ability to produce syntactically complex structures in a foreign language can be accelerated through a different strategy for teaching writing. A writing strategy is outlined which introduces the student gradually and in a very structured way to the concept of sentence-combining. (CHK)

Describes ways to help students improve their spelling ability. (MKM)