A principal components analysis was conducted to determine whether the measures of essays made by the computer could be grouped into factors. Six factors (fluency, spelling, diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and paragraphing) were identified. (Author)

Because of the unwillingness and/or inability of English teachers to teach composition, high school graduates are unable to write correctly. (SP)

The author urges that teachers recognize and utilize student experience and authority in the instruction of English. (AN)

Students of English as a second language, whose errors in writing result partly from lack of control over English transform patterns, should be taught to combine ideas through a transform process. (Author)

Based on author's master's thesis, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., (1967?). (RD)

A college teacher describes writing problems of above average college students who have learned formulas", and his own problems in overcoming a formula response" to student papers. (SP)