Presents a technique for improving writing skills of college students in need of remedial instruction. (RB)

Two members of the staff of the National Assessment report on one analysis that sought to relate different kinds of writing errors to each other. (RB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Secondary Analyses).

Written works and recorded interviews and speeches of four American authors (Hemingway, Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, and Fitzgerald) are examined along with selected book reviews to identify those factors considered to be essential in the preparation of young writers. Selected as being important are personal experiences, imagination, and immersion in…

Questions the purpose of having students "write" in class as a standard practice at the conclusion of a unit of instruction. (RL)

Reading and writing are recognized as the essential tools to knowledge, yet high schools and colleges continue to turn out students who are semiliterates. Article discussed the part that English and English teaching has had in bringing about this situation. (Author/RK)

Describes the Legal Writing-Oral Advocacy Program at the University of Kentucky College of Law for first-year students. (PG)

Describes an exercise in adapting Grimms' fairy tales as colloquial radio plays for class performance at the University of California, Los Angeles. (RS)

A summer school program for fun and learning. (Editor)

Teachers often become dominated by the demands of subject disciplines and fail to provide opportunities for pupils to learn by talking, reading, writing about experiences they meet, for in this way they will come to terms with subject disciplines. (Author)

After developing the theory that writing is enhanced when the writer discusses his ideas before he submits them to paper, author outlines an experiment to test the theory. (Editor)

The authors note the existence of a passive'' grammar, similar to a passive vocabulary, and urge teachers to develop their grammar in the speaking and writing of their students. (MM)

From an analysis of both students themes and several published text-workbooks the author concludes that these books fail to meet the needs of a considerable number of students. (MM)

To motivate students in composition writing, the author suggests writing assignments in which students may find possible solutions to their problems. (PG)